Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Ethyl Acetate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Ethyl Acetate is a cosmetic ingredient that dissolves other ingredients. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 160 products, most often nail polishes.
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What does Ethyl Acetate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Ethyl Acetate dissolves other ingredients and adds scent. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: solvent and perfuming.
What other names and numbers does Ethyl Acetate have?
- CAS number
- 141-78-6
- EC number
- 205-500-4
- CosIng reference
- 33805
Which products contain Ethyl Acetate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Ethyl Acetate in the ingredient lists of 160 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often nail polishes, nail makeup and breathable nail polishes.
Products with it, by country of sale: Turkey 65 · France 35 · Germany 20 · Türkiye 16.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Ethyl Acetate 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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