Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
C20-22 Alcohols in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
C20-22 Alcohols is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 16 products, most often sunscreen.
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What does C20-22 Alcohols do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, C20-22 Alcohols makes the product thicker or thinner, holds a powder or a pressed product together and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, binding and emulsion stabilising.
What is C20-22 Alcohols?
C20-22 Alcohols is a mixture of synthetic aliphatic alcohols with 20 to 22 carbons in the alkyl chain.
- CAS number
- 90604-34-5
- EC number
- 292-327-2
- CosIng reference
- 54907
Which products contain C20-22 Alcohols?
Open Beauty Facts finds C20-22 Alcohols in the ingredient lists of 16 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 13 · Italy 2 · Indonesia 1 · Bulgaria 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where C20-22 Alcohols turns up, not how much of the market it is.
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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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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