Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Triethoxycaprylylsilane in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Triethoxycaprylylsilane is a cosmetic ingredient that holds a powder or a pressed product together. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 170 products, most often face makeup.

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What does Triethoxycaprylylsilane do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Triethoxycaprylylsilane holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: binding.

binding

What other names and numbers does Triethoxycaprylylsilane have?

CAS number
2943-75-1
EC number
220-941-2
CosIng reference
59822

Which products contain Triethoxycaprylylsilane?

Open Beauty Facts finds Triethoxycaprylylsilane in the ingredient lists of 170 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup, foundations and sunscreen.

  • Face makeup28
  • Foundations27
  • Sunscreen12
  • Tinted lip balms11

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 45 · Türkiye 30 · Turkey 20 · France 19.

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