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INCI ingredient

Ethyl Acetate

Also listed as: Ethyl Acétate

Ethyl Acetate appears on 157 ingredient lists in our database, most often in nail productss.

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

Ethyl Acetate appears on 157 ingredient lists in our database, most often in nail productss.

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: solvent, perfuming

Products with Ethyl Acetate

in 157 products

Showing 24 of 157 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • solvent
  • perfuming
  • solvent: Dissolving other components of cosmetics. Solvents are usually liquids (aqueous and nonaqueous).
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 141-78-6 · EC 205-500-4

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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