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What to do when you can’t find an INCI
Our company is trying to incorporate apple cider vinegar into a product, but we’re currently too cheap to pay for wINCI from the PCPC. UL prospector has this ingredient in the food and beverage section, I’m not concerned about the supply, but our quality team is giving us trouble about how to name the ingredient. I looked at other product’s LOI (but I take those with some skepticism), and those seem to vary.
To fellow industry-members, where do you look when you have a unique ingredient that you don’t know the INCI for?
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6 Replies
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Why do you not just ask your supplier of the apple cider vinegar you are using what is the registered INCI?
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acetic acid
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IN this case you get some results by googleing “apple cider vinegar INCI” otherwise you ask your supplier for a document as Mark stated above.
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@markbroussard it couldn’t hurt to ask; I figured since they are a food and beverage supplier and not a cosmetic one they won’t even know what an INCI is.
We frequently get requests where clients want to incorporate a material that is uncommon to cosmetics (deer velvet, other popular supplement ingredients) and sometimes it’s difficult to find an INCI name that seems suitable, so I was just wondering what other groups do in these kinds of situations
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personally I’d go with “Pyrus Malus fruit extract”
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@belassi and @bill_Toge I found one product that said “acetic acid, pyrus malus fruit extract” and I think I feel most comfortable with that. This is just one example of a recurring issue we have so I’m looking more for general ideas as well
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