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INCI ingredient

Behenyl Alcohol

Behenyl Alcohol appears on 220 ingredient lists in our database, most often in face creams.

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

Behenyl Alcohol appears on 220 ingredient lists in our database, most often in face creams.

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: binding, skin conditioning - emollient, emulsion stabilising, viscosity controlling

Products with Behenyl Alcohol

in 220 products

Showing 24 of 220 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • binding
  • skin conditioning - emollient
  • emulsion stabilising
  • viscosity controlling
  • binding: Providing adhesive properties during and after compression in cosmetic tablets and/or cakes.
  • skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
  • emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 661-19-8 · EC 211-546-6

EU regulation

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

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

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