Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate is a cosmetic ingredient that leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 57 products, most often nail polishes.
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What does Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and keeps a film flexible. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: film forming and plasticiser.
What other names and numbers does Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate have?
- CAS number
- 126-13-6
- EC number
- 204-771-6
- CosIng reference
- 38377
Which products contain Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate in the ingredient lists of 57 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often nail polishes, breathable nail polishes and nail makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: Turkey 49 · Canada 3 · France 2 · United States 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate 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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