Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Glyceryl Caprylate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Glyceryl Caprylate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 327 products, most often body care.

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What does Glyceryl Caprylate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Caprylate softens and smooths the skin, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and emulsifying.

emollientemulsifying

What other names and numbers does Glyceryl Caprylate have?

CAS number
26402-26-6
EC number
247-668-1
CosIng reference
34049

Which products contain Glyceryl Caprylate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Caprylate in the ingredient lists of 327 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, face care and shampoos.

  • Body care19
  • Face care16
  • Shampoos16
  • Facial creams15

Products with it, by country of sale: France 130 · United States 37 · Germany 34 · Spain 21.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Glyceryl Caprylate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsEmollientsEmulsifiers

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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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