Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Petrolatum in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Petrolatum is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 530 products, most often body care.
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What does Petrolatum do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Petrolatum softens and smooths the skin, and reduces static, so hair stays flat. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and antistatic.
What other names and numbers does Petrolatum have?
- CAS number
- 8009-03-8
- EC number
- 232-373-2
- CosIng reference
- 79504
Which products contain Petrolatum?
Open Beauty Facts finds Petrolatum in the ingredient lists of 530 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, lip balms and body creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 137 · France 73 · Australia 41 · Germany 38.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Petrolatum 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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