This record confirms an official common ingredient name for EU cosmetic product labelling. It does not by itself confirm that the substance is permitted, unrestricted or safe.
The resolved identity has matching regulatory evidence in 0 of 13 indexed market datasets: 0 country records and 0 EU Annex records. Every result and evidence gap is listed below.
Ceramide 6 II (Retired) is the N-acylated phytosphingosine having the erythro structure that conforms generally to the formula, where m has a value ranging from 13 to 27 and n has a value ranging from 12 to 20. The INCI Name, Ceramide 6 II, originally developed in 1997, was designated with a retire…
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N-(2-hydroxyoctadecanoyl)-4-hydroxysphinganine is a phytoceramide in which the ceramide N-acyl group is specified as 2-hydroxyoctadecanoyl.
Exact CosIng INCI name equals a PubChem synonym · Checked 2026-08-31
None of the 13 markets tracked here holds an imported rule under the name CERAMIDE 6 II.
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Imported from Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1175 (dataset version EU 2025/1175). The glossary supplies common ingredient names for the ingredient list required by Article 19(1)(g); it is not an approval or safety list.
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