Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Dimethyl Succinate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Dimethyl Succinate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 5 products, most often cleansers.

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What does Dimethyl Succinate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Dimethyl Succinate softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning, solvent and masking.

emollientskin conditioningsolventmasking

What other names and numbers does Dimethyl Succinate have?

CAS number
106-65-0
EC number
203-419-9
CosIng reference
33491

Which products contain Dimethyl Succinate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Dimethyl Succinate in the ingredient lists of 5 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often cleansers and nail polish removers.

  • Cleansers2
  • Nail polish removers2

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2 · France 1 · United Kingdom 1 · Australia 1.

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