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INCI ingredient

Cetearyl Alcohol Alcol Cetearilico

Also listed as: Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Alcohol (Alcol Cetearilico)

Cetearyl Alcohol Alcol Cetearilico appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in scrubs.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureplant or 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

Cetearyl Alcohol Alcol Cetearilico appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in scrubs.

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: skin conditioning - emollient, surfactant - emulsifying, emulsion stabilising, surfactant - foam boosting, opacifying, surfactant - cleansing, viscosity controlling

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • skin conditioning - emollient
  • surfactant - emulsifying
  • emulsion stabilising
  • surfactant - foam boosting
  • opacifying
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • viscosity controlling
  • skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
  • surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
  • emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
  • surfactant - foam boosting: Increasing foaming capacity and/or stabilize foams in general.

CAS 67762-27-0 / 8005-44-5 · EC 267-008-6 / -

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

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

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