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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Glyceryl Linoleate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 45 products, most often hair care.

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What does Glyceryl Linoleate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Linoleate 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 Linoleate have?

CAS number
2277-28-3, 26545-74-4
EC number
218-901-4, 247-788-4
CosIng reference
34084

Which products contain Glyceryl Linoleate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Linoleate in the ingredient lists of 45 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care, shampoos and hair masks.

  • Hair care10
  • Shampoos9
  • Hair masks4

Products with it, by country of sale: France 25 · Australia 4 · Canada 3 · Norway 3.

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