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INCI ingredient

Beeswax

Also listed as: Cera Alba, Cera De Abelha, Bienenwachs, Beeswax/Cire D'abeille, Cire D'abeille

Beeswax appears on 79 ingredient lists in our database, most often in lip balms.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNoanimal-derived
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

If a product lists Beeswax, its vegan answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Beeswax appears on 79 ingredient lists in our database, most often in lip balms.

On the label it counts as vegan, which is why a product that lists it cannot be vegan.

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

Functions: skin conditioning - emollient, surfactant - emulsifying, film forming, perfuming

Products with Beeswax

in 79 products

Showing 24 of 79 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • skin conditioning - emollient
  • surfactant - emulsifying
  • film forming
  • perfuming
  • skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
  • surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
  • film forming: Producing (upon application) a continuous film on the skin, hair or nails.
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 8012-89-3 · EC 232-383-7

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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