Caproic Acid
Caproic Acid appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in lip balms.
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
Caproic Acid appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in lip balms.
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: cleansing, surfactant - emulsifying, fragrance, surfactant - cleansing, perfuming
Products with Caproic Acid
in 2 products
- no photoCelenes Nordic Blueberry Stick Lip Balm Lip & CheekCelenes · lip balm
- no photoCelenes Nordic Cloudberry Stick Lip BalmCelenes · lip balm
Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- cleansing
- surfactant - emulsifying
- fragrance
- surfactant - cleansing
- perfuming
- cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
- surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
- fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
- surfactant - cleansing: Wetting body surfaces, emulsifying or solubilizing oils, and suspending soil (generally, such ingredients contribute to the foaming and lathering properties of cleansing products).
CAS 142-62-1 · EC 205-550-7
Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.
CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.
Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.