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INCI ingredient

Butane

Also listed as: Butane / Isobutane / Propane, Butane/Isobutane/Propane

A propellant gas used in aerosol deodorants, hair sprays and shaving foams.

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

Butane is one of the three liquefied gases, with propane and isobutane, that pressurise most cosmetic aerosols. It evaporates the moment the product leaves the can and does not stay on the skin. CosIng lists it as a propellant.

It comes from petroleum gas and affects none of the six checks.

Functions: propellant

Products with Butane

in 655 products

Showing 24 of 655 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • propellant
  • propellant: Generating pressure in an aerosol pack, expelling contents when the valve is opened. Some liquefied propellants can act as solvents.

CAS 106-97-8 · EC 203-448-7

EU regulation

Listed in Annex II (ref. 465) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation.

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

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