Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Myristyl Myristate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Myristyl Myristate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 212 products, most often body care.
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What does Myristyl Myristate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Myristyl Myristate softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning and opacifying.
What other names and numbers does Myristyl Myristate have?
- CAS number
- 3234-85-3
- EC number
- 221-787-9
- CosIng reference
- 35459
Which products contain Myristyl Myristate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Myristyl Myristate in the ingredient lists of 212 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, body creams and hand creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 58 · Germany 53 · Turkey 17 · Netherlands 11.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Myristyl Myristate 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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