INCI ingredient

Caprylic Acid

Caprylic Acid appears on 64 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

What it triggers

Caprylic Acid appears on 64 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

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

in 64 products

Showing 24 of 64 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

Functions listed by CosIng

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 124-07-2 · EC 204-677-5

EU regulation

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.

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