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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Xylitol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Xylitol is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 427 products, most often toothpastes.

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What does Xylitol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Xylitol holds water in the skin or the product and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and skin conditioning.

humectantskin conditioning

What other names and numbers does Xylitol have?

CAS number
87-99-0
EC number
201-788-0
CosIng reference
38920

Which products contain Xylitol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Xylitol in the ingredient lists of 427 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and mouthwash.

  • Toothpastes73
  • Mouthwash26

Products with it, by country of sale: France 120 · United States 87 · Germany 43 · Italy 18.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Xylitol turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsHumectants

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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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