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INCI ingredient

Cetearylalcohol

Also listed as: Cetearyl Alcohol

Cetearylalcohol appears on 23 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair conditioners.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Cetearylalcohol appears on 23 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair conditioners.

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

Products with Cetearylalcohol

in 23 products

Showing 23 of 23 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

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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