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INCI ingredient

Butylphenyl Methylpropional

Also listed as: Lilial, Butylphényl Méthylpropional

Lilial, a fragrance allergen that the EU banned from cosmetics in 2022.

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 Butylphenyl Methylpropional, its fragrance-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Butylphenyl methylpropional, sold as Lilial, is a synthetic lily of the valley scent that was in a large share of perfume blends for decades. CosIng lists it as perfuming. It was moved to Annex II of the EU cosmetics regulation, so products placed on the EU market from March 2022 may not contain it; older labels in our database still list it.

Seeing it means the product is scented, so the fragrance-free answer is no.

Functions: fragrance, declared allergen

Products with Butylphenyl Methylpropional

in 548 products

Showing 24 of 548 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • fragrance
  • perfuming
  • 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.

CAS 80-54-6 · EC 201-289-8

EU regulation

Listed in Annex II (ref. 1666) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. II/1666

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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