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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Pentaerythrityl Tetrabehenate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Pentaerythrityl Tetrabehenate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 5 products, most often lip glosses.

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What does Pentaerythrityl Tetrabehenate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Pentaerythrityl Tetrabehenate softens and smooths the skin, and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and viscosity controlling.

emollientviscosity controlling

What other names and numbers does Pentaerythrityl Tetrabehenate have?

CAS number
61682-73-3
EC number
262-895-6
CosIng reference
36467

Which products contain Pentaerythrityl Tetrabehenate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Pentaerythrityl Tetrabehenate in the ingredient lists of 5 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip glosses and volumizing mascaras.

  • Lip glosses2
  • Volumizing mascaras2

Products with it, by country of sale: Türkiye 4 · Turkey 2.

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