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INCI ingredient

Farnesol Certified Organic

Also listed as: Farnesol

Farnesol Certified Organic appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in cream or lotions.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceYescounts as fragrance
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

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

What it does

Farnesol Certified Organic appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in cream or lotions.

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 the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • deodorant
  • perfuming
  • 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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