INCI ingredient

Farnesol

Also listed as: Farnésol

Farnesol appears on 156 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body and face oils.

What it triggers

If a product lists Farnesol, its fragrance-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

Farnesol appears on 156 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body and face oils.

On the label it counts as fragrance, which is why a product that lists it cannot be fragrance-free.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: deodorant, perfuming

in 156 products

Showing 24 of 156 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

Functions listed by CosIng

deodorant: Reducing and/or eluminating unpleasant odour. Contributing against the formation of malodour on body surfaces.
perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 4602-84-0 · EC 225-004-1

EU regulation

Listed in Annex III (ref. 82) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. III/82

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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