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Friday, April 24, 2026 EU Ecolabel DID list detergents cosmetics paints CAS number chemical data reproducibility SSbD Safe and Sustainable by Design PEF LCA ecodesign chemical sustainability Ecolabel criteria reference dataset
Every European cosmetic, detergent or paint formulator applying for the EU Ecolabel runs into the same wall. The reference document — the Detergent Ingredients Database (DID list) — is organized partly by chemical family and partly by substance, with no clear guidance on which is which. Formulators work from CAS numbers on their Safety Data Sheets; the Ecolabel criteria refer to DID entries. The bridge between the two exists nowhere officially. Each company ends up rebuilding its own mapping, inconsistently, dossier after dossier.