Sciencemadness Discussion Board

U.S gov house hold product chemical database for OTC products

Hockeydemon - 2-5-2013 at 17:55

It's possible I am the only person to not have known this, but apparently in the U.S the government has a searchable database by ingredient with products containing that ingredient and at what percentage.

I was previously using the sticky thread to find a type of product that contains the chemical I want, and then looking up various MSDS for products that might contain the chemical I wanted.

Now I can just look up any chemical and find what percentage is contained in various brands. Then I just find a retailer that carries that product.

Just thought I'd share in case someone else didn't know about this website.

http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/household/list?...

neptunium - 2-5-2013 at 18:40

pretty cool! no you werent the only one i didnt know about this either!
Thanks HockeyD!

cyanureeves - 2-5-2013 at 18:56

Alnox (Standard) Electrical Joint Compound has 19.5 nickel?gotta see this grease and great info.

binaryclock - 2-5-2013 at 20:47

Neato.. yeah I've been using that!


[Edited on 3-5-2013 by binaryclock]

elementcollector1 - 2-5-2013 at 20:49

This'll come in handy!

Fantasma4500 - 3-5-2013 at 01:48

highly concentrated NaClO in every day products? very interesting

BromicAcid - 3-5-2013 at 05:24

I used to use this database often, a quick search of the URL on this site gives a number of threads where it was the topic of interest (and quite a few more where it was mentioned):

http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=1093
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=16664
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=11561

It's a good resource but I have to wonder if things ever get updated, I believe there was a section in the potassium thread where they were searching the database for t-butanol but when one of the fuel additives that was supposed to have t-butanol was found it wasn't in there.