Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Isopropyl Alcohol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Isopropyl Alcohol is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 646 products, most often hair care.
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What does Isopropyl Alcohol do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Isopropyl Alcohol makes the product thicker or thinner, dissolves other ingredients and adds scent. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, solvent, perfuming and antifoaming.
What other names and numbers does Isopropyl Alcohol have?
- CAS number
- 67-63-0
- EC number
- 200-661-7
- CosIng reference
- 34680
Which products contain Isopropyl Alcohol?
Open Beauty Facts finds Isopropyl Alcohol in the ingredient lists of 646 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care, nail polishes and breathable nail polishes.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 144 · Germany 86 · Norway 82 · Turkey 79.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Isopropyl Alcohol 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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