Disodium fumarate is an organic sodium salt resulting from the replacement of the protons from the carboxy groups of fumaric acid by sodium ions.
Definition
US FDA substance register · UNII 0578QTK490 · registered name DISODIUM FUMARATE · single chemical substance
Disodium fumarate is an organic sodium salt resulting from the replacement of the protons from the carboxy groups of fumaric acid by sodium ions. It has a role as a food acidity regulator. It contains a fumarate(2-).
Source: PubChem
Cosmetic roles
Safety & regulatory references
Not classified under Korea’s toxic-substance GHS list · existing chemical substance
Reviewed by CIR: Final Report on the Safety Assessment of Fumaric Acid and Related Salts and Esters as Used in Cosmetics
More data — names, identifiers, properties, test records, literature
Names & identifiers
- CAS No.chemical registry number
- 17013-01-3
- EC No.EU chemical inventory number
- 241-087-7
- DTXSIDUS EPA chemical ID
- DTXSID10168802
- DTXCIDUS EPA compound ID
- DTXCID8091293
- IUPAC
- Disodium (2E)-but-2-enedioate
- Molecular formula
- C4H2Na2O4
- Molecular weight
- 160.036 g/mol
Measured properties
- Appearance
- Hygroscopic powder, [Alfa Aesar MSDS] · solid
- Water solubility
- (20%)
- Decomposition temperature
- 300 ℃
- Molecular weight
- 162.05
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: PubChem · KOSHA safety data sheets (Korea)
What products actually use it for
What the 2 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.
- pH regulating agent2
Source: US EPA CompTox dashboard
Irritation and sensitisation studies
1 skin studies and 0 eye studies are on record.
The study conclusions largely agree (100%). These tests are on the raw material itself; irritation at the amount in a finished product is a different question.
See all 1 studies
- SkinSens1
Skin Sensitization · QSAR Predicted
Source: US EPA CompTox dashboard
Linked databases 15
- 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
- PubChem 2
- UniChem cross-reference IDs
- US Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) 2
- US EPA CompTox dashboard 2
- US EPA DSSTox chemical database
- US FDA substance registration (GSRS)
- US FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII)
- Wikidata 2