- Korean limit
- 5%
Definition
US FDA substance register · UNII IQ3Q79344S · registered name Dimethyl Oxalate · single chemical substance
Cosmetic roles
Safety & regulatory references
- Restricted
- China · South Korea
Source: MFDS (Korea) cosmetic regulatory information
Argentina · Brazil
- Field of application and/or use : Professional products for hair treatment
- Maximum concentration permitted at final product : 5%
- Use conditions and warnings that must appear on the label : For Professional use only
ASEAN
- Field of application and/or use : Hair care products
- Maximum authorised concentration in the finished cosmetic product : 5%
- Conditions of use and warning which must be printed on the labels : For professional use only
European Union
- Product Type, body parts : Hair products
- Maximum concentration in ready for use preparation : 5%
- Other : Professional use
- Wording of conditions of use and warnings : For professional use only
Source: MFDS (Korea) cosmetic regulatory information
Not classified under Korea’s toxic-substance GHS list · existing chemical substance
Restriction III/3
Source: EU CosIng ingredient list
More data — names, identifiers, properties, test records, literature
Names & identifiers
- CAS No.chemical registry number
- 553-90-2
- EC No.EU chemical inventory number
- 209-053-6
- DTXSIDUS EPA chemical ID
- DTXSID9060287
- DTXCIDUS EPA compound ID
- DTXCID4041866
- IUPAC
- Dimethyl ethanedioate
- Molecular formula
- C4H6O4
- Molecular weight
- 118.088 g/mol
Measured properties
- Appearance
- solid
- Colour
- white
- Melting/freezing point
- 50-54 ℃
- Initial boiling point and range
- 163~164 ℃
- Flash point
- 75 ℃
- Relative density
- 1.148 g/cm3 (at 20 C)
- n-Octanol/water partition coefficient (Kow)
- -0.17
- Molecular weight
- 115.09 (est.)
Values measured on the substance itself. The KOSHA data are a reference for writing and reviewing safety data sheets, not a specification for a commercial raw material.
Source: KOSHA safety data sheets (Korea)
What products actually use it for
What the 5 products reported to the US EPA with this ingredient use it for. Products outside cosmetics are included, so the top few rows are its main uses.
- Intermediate2
- Chelating agent1
- Plasticizer1
- Solvent1
Source: US EPA CompTox dashboard
Related literature
Linked databases 17
- Australian Industrial Chemicals Inventory (AICIS)
- ChEBI
- EU CosIng ingredient list 2
- Korea Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary
- Korea toxic substances GHS register (NIER)
- KOSHA safety data sheets (Korea)
- MFDS (Korea) cosmetic ingredient register 2
- MFDS (Korea) cosmetic regulatory information 2 3
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- PubMed
- UniChem cross-reference IDs
- US EPA CompTox dashboard 2
- US EPA DSSTox chemical database
- US FDA substance registration (GSRS)
- US FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII)
- Wikidata
- Wikipedia · English · Japanese · Chinese