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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Dipropylene Glycol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Dipropylene Glycol is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 466 products, most often face makeup.

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What does Dipropylene Glycol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Dipropylene Glycol makes the product thicker or thinner, dissolves other ingredients and adds scent. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, solvent, perfuming and masking.

viscosity controllingsolventperfumingmasking

What other names and numbers does Dipropylene Glycol have?

CAS number
110-98-5, 25265-71-8
EC number
203-821-4, 246-770-3
CosIng reference
75742

Which products contain Dipropylene Glycol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Dipropylene Glycol in the ingredient lists of 466 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup, foundations and deodorants.

  • Face makeup30
  • Foundations26
  • Deodorants25

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 99 · France 97 · Germany 53 · Australia 34.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Dipropylene Glycol 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’.

  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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