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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Arachidyl Alcohol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Arachidyl Alcohol is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 76 products, most often face care.

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What does Arachidyl Alcohol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Arachidyl Alcohol softens and smooths the skin, makes the product thicker or thinner, and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, viscosity controlling and emulsion stabilising.

emollientviscosity controllingemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does Arachidyl Alcohol have?

CAS number
629-96-9
EC number
211-119-4
CosIng reference
74355

Which products contain Arachidyl Alcohol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Arachidyl Alcohol in the ingredient lists of 76 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care, body care and facial creams.

  • Face care9
  • Body care6
  • Facial creams5
  • Anti-wrinkle creams5

Products with it, by country of sale: France 25 · Spain 8 · United States 8 · Turkey 6.

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

On these listsEmollients

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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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