Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Glycyrrhetinic Acid in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Glycyrrhetinic Acid is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the skin in good condition. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 30 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Glycyrrhetinic Acid do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Glycyrrhetinic Acid keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: skin conditioning.

skin conditioning

What other names and numbers does Glycyrrhetinic Acid have?

CAS number
471-53-4
EC number
207-444-6
CosIng reference
34152

Which products contain Glycyrrhetinic Acid?

Open Beauty Facts finds Glycyrrhetinic Acid in the ingredient lists of 30 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen and facial creams.

  • Sunscreen4
  • Facial creams3

Products with it, by country of sale: France 18 · Morocco 5 · Belgium 3 · Sweden 2.

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