INCI ingredient

Benzyl Salicylate

Also listed as: Benzyl Salicylaťe, Benzyl Salicylate'

A faintly floral fragrance ingredient and UV absorber that EU labels must declare as an allergen.

What it triggers

Vegan originYesno animal source
FragranceYescounts as fragrance
ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
SiliconeNonot a silicone
AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

If a product lists Benzyl Salicylate, its fragrance-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Benzyl salicylate is used to fix and soften perfume blends. It is on the EU list of declared fragrance allergens.

It counts as fragrance.

Functions: fragrance, declared allergen

Products with Benzyl Salicylate

in 1,408 products

Showing 24 of 1,408 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng

perfuming
light stabilizer

perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.
light stabilizer: Protecting the cosmetic product from deterioration effects of light.

CAS 118-58-1 · EC 204-262-9

EU regulation

Listed in Annex III (ref. 75) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration (a) 4 % (b) 0,5 % (c) 1,3 % (d) 0,5 % (e) 0,5 % (f) 0,7 % (g) 0,2 % (h) 0,004 % (i) 0,91 %. (a) Fragrance products (hydroalcoholic and non-hydroalcoholic, spray and non-spray) (b) Rinse-off skin and hair products (except shower gel/bath products) (c) Shower gel/bath products (d) Leave-on skin and hair products (non-spray/non-aerosol) (except body lotion) (e) Leave-on hair products (spray/aerosol) (f) Body lotion (g) Face make-up and make-up remover products (h) Oral products (i) Deodorant products (spray/aerosol) III/75

CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.

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

Fragrance-free instead

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