Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Glyceryl Oleate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Glyceryl Oleate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 911 products, most often bath and shower.
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What does Glyceryl Oleate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Oleate softens and smooths the skin, keeps oil and water mixed, and adds scent. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, emulsifying and perfuming.
What other names and numbers does Glyceryl Oleate have?
- CAS number
- 25496-72-4, 111-03-5
- EC number
- 247-038-6
- CosIng reference
- 76237
Which products contain Glyceryl Oleate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Oleate in the ingredient lists of 911 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often bath and shower, shampoos and shower gels.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 288 · Germany 237 · Italy 56 · Australia 55.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Glyceryl Oleate 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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