Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Pentylene Glycol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Pentylene Glycol is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the skin in good condition. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 675 products, most often face makeup.
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What does Pentylene Glycol do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Pentylene Glycol keeps the skin in good condition and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: skin conditioning and solvent.
What other names and numbers does Pentylene Glycol have?
- CAS number
- 5343-92-0
- EC number
- 226-285-3
- CosIng reference
- 58983
Which products contain Pentylene Glycol?
Open Beauty Facts finds Pentylene Glycol in the ingredient lists of 675 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup, face care and facial creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 184 · United States 85 · Germany 77 · Turkey 43.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Pentylene Glycol 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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