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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Cetyl Lactate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Cetyl Lactate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 9 products, most often facial creams.

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What does Cetyl Lactate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Cetyl Lactate softens and smooths the skin, and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and skin conditioning.

emollientskin conditioning

What other names and numbers does Cetyl Lactate have?

CAS number
35274-05-6
EC number
252-478-7
CosIng reference
74961

Which products contain Cetyl Lactate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Cetyl Lactate in the ingredient lists of 9 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often facial creams, face makeup and cc creams.

  • Facial creams2
  • Face makeup2
  • Cc creams2
  • Face care1
  • Hair care1
  • Hair masks1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 4 · Brazil 1 · Turkey 1 · Morocco 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cetyl Lactate 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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