INCI ingredient

Cetylalcohol

Also listed as: Cetyl Alcohol

Cetylalcohol appears on 4 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair dyes.

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

Cetylalcohol appears on 4 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair dyes.

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, fragrance, opacifying, surfactant - cleansing, viscosity controlling

Products with Cetylalcohol

in 4 products

Showing 4 of 4 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
fragrance
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 36653-82-4 · EC 253-149-0

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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