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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Fertil Steril. 2016 Aug 18;106(4):978–990. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.08.020

Table 2. Chemicals assigned to a chemical family for the word cloud.

All ingredients were taken from the ingredients list of the products mentioned in Table 1. Chemicals that were part of the same family were replaced with the family name (e.g. Blue 1/CI 42090 is a coal tar dye and was replaced with “coal tar dye” for the word cloud), being sure to preserve frequency of appearance for each ingredient.

Label Used Replaced Names

Alpha hydroxy acid Citric acid
Lactic acid

Beta hydroxyl acid Salicylic acid

Coal tar dye Blue 1/CI 42090
Blue 1 Lake/CI 42090
Brown 1/CI 20170
Green 5/CI 61570
Green 6/CI 61565
Orange 4/CI 15510
Orange 5/CI 45370
Orange 5 Lake/CI 45370
Red 4/CI 14700
Red 7/CI 15850
Red 7 Lake/CI 15850
Red 6/CI 15850
Red 6 Lake/CI 15850
Red 17/CI 26100
Red 21/CI 45380
Red 21 Lake/CI 45380
Red 22/CI 45380
Red 22 Lake/CI 45380
Red 30/CI 73360
Red 33/CI 17200
Red 33 Lake/CI 17200
Red 34/CI 15880
Red 34 Lake/CI 15880
Red 36/CI 12085
Red 36 Lake/CI 12085
Red 40/CI 16035
Red 40 Lake/CI 16035
Violet 2/CI 60725
Ext. Violet 2/CI 60730
Yellow 5/CI 19140
Yellow 5 Lake/CI 19140
Yellow 7/CI 45350
Ext. Yellow 7/CI 10316
Yellow 8/CI 45350
Yellow 10/CI 47005
Yellow 10 Lake/CI 47005

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) Disodium EDTA
Tetrasodium EDTA
Trisodium EDTA

Paraben Butylparaben
Ethylparaben
Isobutylparaben
Isopropylparaben
Methylparaben
Propylparaben

Phthalate Polyethylene terephthalate
Terephthalate

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) PEG-6 beeswax
PEG-9
PEG-40 stearate

Pyroglutamic acid (PCA) Calcium PCA
Lauryl PCA
Sodium PCA
Zinc PCA

Siloxane Bis-PEG / PPG-14 / 14 dimethicone
Bis-PEG-12 / dimethicone beeswax
C30–45 alkyl ceteayl dimethicone crosspolymer
Caprylyl trimethicone
Cetearyl dimethicone crosspolymer
Cetyl dimethicone
Cetyl PEG / PPG-10 / 1 dimethicone
Cyclohexasiloxane
Cyclopentasiloxane
Methicone
Dimethicone
Dimethicone crosspolymer
Dimethicone / PEG-10 / 15 crosspolymer
Dimethicone / Vinyl dimethicone crosspolymer
Diphenyl dimethicone
Ethyl trisiloxane
Hexamethyldisiloxane / Disiloxane
Lauryl PEG-9 polydimethylsiloxyethyl dimethicone
Methyl trimethicone
Nylon-611 / Dimethicone copolymer
PEG / PPG-18 / 18 dimethicone
PEG / PPG-20 / 23 dimethicone
PEG-9 polydimethylsiloxyethyl dimethicone
PEG-10 dimethicone
Phenyl trimethicone
Steardimonium hydroxypropyl panthenyl PEG-7 dimethicone phosphate chloride
Stearoxymethicone / Dimethicone copolymer
Stearyl dimethicone
Trimethylsiloxyphenyl dimethicone
Vinyl dimethicone / Methicone silsequioxane crosspolymer

Chemicals of concern that do not appear in the word cloud Beta hydroxyl acid
Sodium laureth sulfate

Chemical families commonly found in cosmetics not found in the products in Table 1 Butylated hydroxyanisole
Triclosan