Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Mannitol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Mannitol is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 103 products, most often face care.
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What does Mannitol do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Mannitol holds water in the skin or the product, moisturises the skin and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant, moisturising, skin conditioning, masking and binding.
What other names and numbers does Mannitol have?
- CAS number
- 69-65-8
- EC number
- 200-711-8
- CosIng reference
- 35167
Which products contain Mannitol?
Open Beauty Facts finds Mannitol in the ingredient lists of 103 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care, facial creams and micellar water.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 38 · Germany 13 · United States 12 · Turkey 9.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Mannitol 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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