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Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 384 products, most often face makeup.

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What does Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: antioxidant.

antioxidant

What other names and numbers does Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate have?

CAS number
6683-19-8
EC number
229-722-6
CosIng reference
58972

Which products contain Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate in the ingredient lists of 384 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup, foundations and concealers.

  • Face makeup29
  • Foundations26
  • Concealers25
  • Shampoos13

Products with it, by country of sale: France 87 · United States 73 · Norway 50 · Germany 38.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate 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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