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INCI ingredient

Glycol

Glycol appears on 40 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hand creams.

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

Glycol appears on 40 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hand creams.

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: humectant, solvent, viscosity controlling

Products with Glycol

in 40 products

Showing 24 of 40 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • humectant
  • solvent
  • viscosity controlling
  • humectant: Retaining and/or preserving the moisture in a product during use.
  • solvent: Dissolving other components of cosmetics. Solvents are usually liquids (aqueous and nonaqueous).
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 107-21-1 · EC 203-473-3

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.

Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake