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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Octyldodecanol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Octyldodecanol is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 673 products, most often deodorants.

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What does Octyldodecanol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Octyldodecanol softens and smooths the skin, adds scent, and hides an unwanted smell or taste. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, perfuming and masking.

emollientperfumingmasking

What other names and numbers does Octyldodecanol have?

CAS number
5333-42-6
EC number
226-242-9
CosIng reference
35610

Which products contain Octyldodecanol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Octyldodecanol in the ingredient lists of 673 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, face care and lip balms.

  • Deodorants105
  • Face care33
  • Lip balms32

Products with it, by country of sale: France 196 · Germany 93 · United States 61 · Australia 57.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Octyldodecanol turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsEmollients

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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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