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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Coco-Caprylate/Caprate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Coco-Caprylate/Caprate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 250 products, most often body care.

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What does Coco-Caprylate/Caprate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate 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 Coco-Caprylate/Caprate have?

CosIng reference
75266

Which products contain Coco-Caprylate/Caprate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Coco-Caprylate/Caprate in the ingredient lists of 250 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, sunscreen and hand creams.

  • Body care23
  • Sunscreen22
  • Hand creams10

Products with it, by country of sale: France 88 · Germany 43 · United States 20 · Australia 15.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Coco-Caprylate/Caprate 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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