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INCI ingredient

Anethole

Anethole appears on 97 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Anethole appears on 97 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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: denaturant, fragrance

Products with Anethole

in 97 products

Showing 24 of 97 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • denaturant
  • fragrance
  • denaturant: Rendering cosmetics unpalatable. Mostly added to cosmetics containing ethyl alcohol to make it unsuitable for ingestion.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.

CAS 104-46-1 · EC 203-205-5

EU regulation

Listed in Annex III (ref. 329) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. III/329

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

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