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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Zinc Ricinoleate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Zinc Ricinoleate is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps a powder free-flowing. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 48 products, most often deodorants.

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What does Zinc Ricinoleate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Zinc Ricinoleate keeps a powder free-flowing, reduces body odour and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: anticaking, deodorant and opacifying.

anticakingdeodorantopacifying

What other names and numbers does Zinc Ricinoleate have?

CAS number
13040-19-2
EC number
235-911-4
CosIng reference
38975

Which products contain Zinc Ricinoleate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Zinc Ricinoleate in the ingredient lists of 48 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, deodorant sticks and roll-on deodorants.

  • Deodorants22
  • Deodorant sticks3
  • Roll-on deodorants3

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 12 · France 10 · Germany 5 · United Kingdom 4.

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