SDS Library

Available documents

How to read an SDS

A Safety Data Sheet follows a fixed 16-section structure under the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), so once you know where to look, every SDS reads the same way. The sections that matter most before you start work:

• Section 2 — Hazard identification. The GHS classification, signal word, pictograms and hazard statements. This is the fastest read of whether a material is flammable, a skin sensitiser, or hazardous to aquatic life.
• Section 4 — First aid. Read this before you need it, not after.
• Section 7 — Handling and storage. Ventilation, ignition sources, container and temperature guidance.
• Section 8 — Exposure controls. Gloves, eye protection and ventilation appropriate to the material.
• Section 9 — Physical and chemical properties. Flash point in particular, which determines how a material may be shipped.
• Section 14 — Transport information. Whether the material is regulated as dangerous goods, and under which UN number.

Lot-specific documents

The sheets published here are current for the grade we stock. Where a material's profile varies between lots — most naturals, and anything where constituent content shifts with origin or harvest — the document relevant to your bottle is the one issued for that lot.

If you are compiling a cosmetic product safety report, or anything else where the paperwork has to match the material you actually used, ask us for the lot document rather than relying on the general sheet.

Request a document

If a material you need isn't listed above, ask. We hold documentation for everything we sell, and publishing it here simply lags behind the catalogue.

Use our contact form and choose “General question”, or email hello@veriscents.com with the material name and, if you have it, the lot number from your bottle.

See also our IFRA documents, certificates & specifications, and shipping information for materials regulated in transport.