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  • WHERE CAN İ FIND THE CORRECT COLOR INDEX NUMBER?

    Posted by alihsanyuksel on April 10, 2018 at 9:00 am

    İ’am preparing MSDS documents our cosmetic product for govermental issues.
    i need to write  color index number of raw material pigments to label of seconder package but i have no any international info about it except for Exp.Date and Pro.Date.
    So i want to go from physical apperance to systematic name.
    what can i do in this situtation?
    Where can i find CI number of these pigments?
    thanks for your replies.

    bill_toge replied 5 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  • chemist77

    Member
    April 10, 2018 at 9:21 am

    Contact the supplier who supplied these pigments to you.

  • alihsanyuksel

    Member
    April 10, 2018 at 11:26 am

    İt doesn’t know.

  • chemist77

    Member
    April 10, 2018 at 11:52 am

    Sorry but at this point I am speechless, not sure what to say any further for a supplier who has no idea what is being supplied to the customer. You cannot index the colors by looking at the shades.

  • oldperry

    Member
    April 10, 2018 at 12:38 pm

    How could the supplier of the colorant not know this information?

    Colorants are one of the most highly regulated of all ingredients that go into a cosmetic. In the US the FDA actually has to certify all batches of most colorants. It may be different in the EU but typically the EU is even more strict than the US.

    It sounds like you need a new color supplier.

  • alihsanyuksel

    Member
    April 10, 2018 at 1:57 pm

    Mr @perry our colorants have entered to our stock system another cosmetic firm which was bankrupted.So Noone knows about its regular documents where it is.
    So finally,İ have pigments and i want to name them by C.Index numbers.

    best regards Mr.Perry.

    by the way,thnx @Chemist77.

  • oldperry

    Member
    April 10, 2018 at 3:43 pm

    Ah, that’s an interesting dilemma. 

  • bill_toge

    Member
    April 10, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    your best bet is to send them off to an analytical lab for identification; individual dyes and pigments are chemically unique, and can easily be identified with the correct techniques

    @Perry cosmetic colour suppliers in Europe generally sell FDA-certified (F)D&C colours, or colours that meet requirements for European food regulations

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