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INCI ingredient

Acetyl Triethyl Citrate

Acetyl Triethyl Citrate appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair conditioners.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Acetyl Triethyl Citrate appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair conditioners.

It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: film forming, fragrance, plasticiser, perfuming

Products with Acetyl Triethyl Citrate

in 3 products

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • film forming
  • fragrance
  • plasticiser
  • perfuming
  • film forming: Producing (upon application) a continuous film on the skin, hair or nails.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • plasticiser: Softening and making supple synthetic polumers that otherwise could not be easily deformed, spread or worked out.
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 77-89-4 · EC 201-066-5

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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