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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Menthyl Acetate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Menthyl Acetate is a cosmetic ingredient that hides an unwanted smell or taste. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 7 products, most often deodorants.

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What does Menthyl Acetate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Menthyl Acetate hides an unwanted smell or taste and gives a fresh feeling. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: masking and refreshing.

maskingrefreshing

What other names and numbers does Menthyl Acetate have?

CAS number
89-48-5
EC number
201-911-8
CosIng reference
78157

Which products contain Menthyl Acetate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Menthyl Acetate in the ingredient lists of 7 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants.

  • Deodorants5

Products with it, by country of sale: Netherlands 6 · United Kingdom 1.

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