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The list

Absence from a list

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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The oils this group names are not on the list. That is a fact about the list.

The structure of the rule

A subsection that names substances, each with its own threshold and its own conditions, introduced by a Commission determination about those substances.

Methyl salicylate is one of them

At more than 5 percent by weight, in liquid preparations, other than in pressurized spray containers.

The rest are not enumerated here

Only that paragraph was obtained verbatim, and a partial list on a packaging page would be worse than a pointer. The section is cited so it can be read.

The oils this group names are not in the paragraph quoted

Roughly thirty leaves, including clove, oregano, thyme, eucalyptus, peppermint and tea tree. None of them is methyl salicylate.

Which says nothing about whether they are safe

And these pages do not say. A substance that does not appear on a list has not been found safe by that absence; it has simply not been listed in the paragraph in question.

That distinction recurs across this library

The reloading property makes it about an exemption from a licensing scheme: being exempt is not a finding that a material is safe. This is the same shape.

And the adjacent botanicals property makes it about a category

Being in a listed category of dietary ingredient is not a permission. Membership and absence are both weak evidence.

So what does the list tell you

That for the substances on it, at the thresholds given, a specific packaging requirement applies. It is a requirement finder, not a risk assessment.

A blend complicates it

A blend containing a high-methyl-salicylate oil can cross 5 percent by weight even if no single named leaf in this group is that oil.

And a carrier dilutes toward the threshold from above

A high-methyl-salicylate oil diluted into one of the twenty-two carrier oils this group names can fall below 5 percent by weight, which is a formulation route out of the requirement.

That is a real option and it is not ours to recommend

It changes the product rather than the package, and whether it is appropriate is a question for whoever is formulating.

Which is a formulation calculation

By weight, in the finished liquid preparation. Not something a container catalog can perform or should attempt.

References

The leaves in this group name roughly thirty essential oils, including clove, oregano, thyme, eucalyptus, peppermint and tea tree, and methyl salicylate is not among them. Neither wintergreen nor sweet birch appears as a leaf. Nothing on these pages says whether any of those oils is safe or hazardous: the point is structural, that 16 CFR 1700.14(a) is a list of named substances and a substance not appearing on a list has not thereby been found safe.
16 CFR 1700.14(a)(3): "Methyl salicylate. Liquid preparations containing more than 5 percent by weight of methyl salicylate, other than those packaged in pressurized spray containers, shall be packaged in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 1700.15 (a), (b), and (c)." The opening of subsection (a) reads: "The Commission has determined that the degree or nature of the hazard to children in the availability of the following substances, by reason of their packaging, is such that special packaging meeting the requirements of Sec. 1700.20(a) is required to protect children from serious personal injury or serious illness resulting from handling, using, or ingesting such substances, and the special packaging herein required is technically feasible, practicable, and appropriate for these substances:" The other substances named in that subsection are not enumerated on these pages. law.cornell.edu
Written from 16 CFR 1700.14 and 1700.15 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Nothing on these pages says whether any essential oil is safe or hazardous, and nothing addresses dilution, exposure or use. The paragraph quoted here names methyl salicylate at a 5 percent by weight threshold; the other substances in 16 CFR 1700.14(a) are not enumerated here and absence from a list is not a safety finding. This shelf holds no child-resistant closure and the catalog holds no pressurized spray container, so neither of the two compliant routes in that paragraph is available from it.