Naturally toxic: natural substances used in personal care products

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 2 Numbers of natural substances in the INCI list [8] originating from various organism genera

Organism group	Number of substances in the INCI list	Number of substances which were notified in the C&L inventory by					Not in the C&L inventory
Organism group	Number of substances in the INCI list	>1,000 notifiers	500 to 1,000 notifiers	100 to 499 notifiers	10 to 99 notifiers	1 to 9 notifiers	Not in the C&L inventory
Higher plants	1,189	1^a	207	50	201	148	582
Animals and humans^b	84	0	0	16^c	6	10	52^d
Mushrooms^e	34	0	0	1^f	0	0	33
Algae^g	31	0	0	1^h	3	6	21
Bacteriaⁱ	17	1^j	0	0	0	0	16
Lichens^k	3	0	1	0	1	1	0
Total	1,358	2	208	68	212	165	703

Grouped according to the number of notifiers in the C&L inventory [13].
^a Ricinus communis oil.
^bIn several cases the species was not named for mammalian substances.
^cFor example, shellac, cera alba (beeswax), albumen (eggwhite), colostrum, lac powder, ovum, royal jelly.
^dNo notifiers, e.g.: embryo extract neural extract, pellis lipida (animals' skin lipids), royal jelly extract, spleen extract, spinal cord extract, sus extract (extract from the skin of the pig), thymus extract (thymus glands extract), umbilical extract.
^eMost entries are Saccharomyces ferment.
^fFaex extract (yeast extract).
^gFor example: Caulerpa taxifolia, Chlorella vulgaris, Chondrus crispus (Irish moss or carrageen moss), Corallina officinalis, Delesseria sanguinea, Fucus serratus, Laminaria digitata, Laminaria japonica, Palmaria palmate (dulse), Ulva lactuca (sea lettuce).
^h Fucus vesiculosus extract (bladderwrack algae).
ⁱFor example, the following genera: Aspergillus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus.
^jXanthan gum (polysaccharide secreted by the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris).
^kExtracts from Usnea barbata (tree moss), Cetraria Islandica (Iceland moss), and Evernia prunastri.