How to read Ifra compliance certificate for fragrance compounds?

[juanjulio0000]

Hi, newbie here and want to make things right from the beginning, but is sooo confusing!

There is a place in my home town ( Dominican Republic ) that sells Robertet stuff. I got some but could't find it on robertet webpage. She told me they are fragrances they did for her when she visited robertets location in france. I asked for an Ifra certificate to see what it was and got it. Now I dont know hoy to read it! .

It says category 4 maximum level of use (%) (w/w) the number is 33,4225.

The presence and concentration of ingredients restricted by the current IFRA Standards are as follows.... A bunch of materials, but just some materials have numbers.... What does it means?

Thanks in advance basenoters!

 

[jfrater]

If it says 5% in category 4, you can have 5% of the material in your finished product. So if you make a perfume that is 10% concentration (an eau de toilette say) you can use it at half your perfume juice:

Juice:
500 Robertet Product
500 Other materials

Perfume
100 Juice (containing 50g of robertet material)
900 Alcohol

The other numbers are helpful with naturals - a product may be restricted to 5% because of the presence of something like eugenol, but perhaps it also contains a lot of isoeugenol - you can use those other numbers to calculate how much isoeugenol is in your fragrance becasue isoeugenol has its own restriction standard.

If you use no isoeugenol in your perfume you're fine with just the category 4 requirement, but if you use materials that are listed in the IFRA document as extra materials, you need to calculate the totals for compliance with other standards.

 

[juanjulio0000]

If it says 5% in category 4, you can have 5% of the material in your finished product. So if you make a perfume that is 10% concentration (an eau de toilette say) you can use it at half your perfume juice:

Juice:
500 Robertet Product
500 Other materials

Perfume
100 Juice (containing 50g of robertet material)
900 Alcohol

The other numbers are helpful with naturals - a product may be restricted to 5% because of the presence of something like eugenol, but perhaps it also contains a lot of isoeugenol - you can use those other numbers to calculate how much isoeugenol is in your fragrance becasue isoeugenol has its own restriction standard.

If you use no isoeugenol in your perfume you're fine with just the category 4 requirement, but if you use materials that are listed in the IFRA document as extra materials, you need to calculate the totals for compliance with other standards.

Thanks for the reply! I understand that part. What i dont really understand is the Numbers on the document. I’ll post it to explain myself better on how to know what the numbers mean in %

 

[pkiler]

The numbers in the right column are the actual material percentages present. Eg., eugenol is at 0.0303%.

 

[juanjulio0000]

The numbers in the right column are the actual material percentages present. Eg., eugenol is at 0.0303%.

Thanks! So the , is actually a . Now i get it…

 

[pkiler]

Thanks! So the , is actually a . Now i get it…

Yes, Europeans use a comma, instead of a decimal point.

 

[juanjulio0000]

Yes, Europeans use a comma, instead of a decimal point.

Thank you!