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INCI ingredient

Benzaldehyde

Benzaldehyde appears on 36 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair cares.

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

Benzaldehyde appears on 36 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair cares.

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, perfuming, flavouring

Products with Benzaldehyde

in 36 products

Showing 24 of 36 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • denaturant
  • fragrance
  • perfuming
  • flavouring
  • 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.
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.
  • flavouring: Imparting taste and/or flavour to a cosmetic product.

CAS 100-52-7 · EC 202-860-4

EU regulation

Listed in Annex III (ref. 330) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation.

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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