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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Apigenin in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Apigenin is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 5 products, most often hair treatments.

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What does Apigenin do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Apigenin stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant and hair conditioning.

antioxidanthair conditioning

What other names and numbers does Apigenin have?

CAS number
520-36-5
EC number
208-292-3
CosIng reference
85203

Which products contain Apigenin?

Open Beauty Facts finds Apigenin in the ingredient lists of 5 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair treatments, 2-in-1 shampoos and shampoo and conditioners.

  • Hair treatments1
  • 2-in-1 shampoos1
  • Shampoo and conditioners1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 2 · Turkey 2 · Kiko 1 · Romania 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Apigenin turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsAntioxidants

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Sources

The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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