Schedule Q with Respect To Cosmetic
Schedule Q with Respect To Cosmetic
The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 are the rules which the government of India established through the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. These rules classify drugs under given schedules and present guidelines for the storage, sale, display and prescription of each schedule.
Schedule Q is one of the schedules under Drugs and Cosmetics rules which describes the list of dyes, colours and pigments permitted to be used in cosmetics and soaps. Schedule Q further consists of two parts:
Part I: It consists of the list of dyes, colours and pigments permitted to be used in cosmetics and soaps as per amended by the BIS from time to time
Part II: It consists of the list of colours permitted to be used in Soap.
As per Schedule Q synthetic Organic Colours and Natural Organic Colours used in the Cosmetics that are permitted for use shall not contain more than:
- 2 parts per million of Arsenic calculated as Arsenic Trioxide.
- 20 parts per million of lead calculated as lead.
- 100 parts per million of Heavy Metals other than lead calculated as the total of the respective metals.
The list of approved colours and dyes as per Schedule Q Part I
| 1. Guinea Green B | 2. 38. Toluidine Red |
| 3. Light Green SF Yellowish | 4. Flaming Red |
| 5. Tartrazine | 6. Deep Red (Maroon) |
| 7. Sunset yellow FCF | 8. Alba Red |
| 9. Ponceau 3R | 10. Orange G |
| 11. Amarnath | 12. Orange II |
| 13. Erythrosine | 14. Dichlorofluorescein |
| 15. Ponceau SX | 16. Dichlorofluorescein. NA |
| 17. Brilliant Blue FCF | 18. Diiodofluorescein |
| 19. Indigo carmine | 20. Erythrosine Yellowish NA |
| 21. Wool Violet 5 BN (Acid- violet 6B) | 22. Erythrosine Yellowish K |
| 23. Light Green SF Yellowish | 24. Erythrosine Yellowish NH |
| 25. Alizarin Cyanine Green F | 26. Orange TR |
| 27. Quinizarine Green SS | 28. Alizarin |
| 29. Fast Green FCF | 30. Dibromodiiodofluorescein |
| 31. Acid Fast Green | 32. Resorcin Brown |
| 33. Pyranine Concentrated | 34. Alphazurine FG |
| 35. Quinoline Yellow WS | 36. Allarin Astrol B |
| 37. Quinoline Yellow SS | 38. Indigo |
| 39. Ponceau 2 R | 40. Patent Blue NA |
| 41. Lithol Rubin B. | 42. Patent Blue CA |
| 42. Lithol Rubin BCA | 43. Curbrantherene Blue |
| 44. Lake Red D. | 45. Napthol Blue Black |
| 46. Lake Red DBA | 47. Alizurol purple SS |
| 48. Lake Red DCA | 49. Acid Red 89 |
| 50. Toney Red | 51. Acid Red 97 |
| 52. Oil Red OS | 53. Acid Blue 1 |
| 54. Tetrabromofluorescein | 55. Food Blue 3 |
| 56. Eosin TS | 57. Natural Orange |
| 58. Eosin YSK | 59. Solvent Blues 4 |
| 60. Tetrachlorofluorescein NA | 61. Solvent Yellow 18 |
| 62. Tetrachlorofluorescein K | 63. Food Yellow 18 |
| 64. Tetrachloro Tetrabromofluorescein | 65. Solvent Red 1 |
| 66. Phloxine B | 67. Solvent Yellow 32 |
| 68. Bluish Orange T.R. | 69. Fanchon Yellow |
| 71. Helindone Pink CN. | 72. (Hansa Yellow G) |
| 73. Deep Maroon (Fanchon Maroon) |
Part II – List of Colours permitted to be used in Soaps.
| 1. Phthalocyanine Blue |
| 2. Irgalite Red CVPB Paste or Pigment Orange 5 |
| 3. Citrus Red No.2 |
| 4. Rhodamine B 500 |
| 5. Aqueous Green Paste |
| 6. Pigment Yellow 3 |
| 7. Irgalite Carmine F-P Powder or Pigments Red 5. |
| 8. Monolite Red 4R HV Paste or Pigment Red 7 |
| 9. Oil Red No.1 or Solvent Red 24 or Oil Red 3R. |