Hexyleneglycol
Also listed as: Hexylene Glycol
Hexyleneglycol appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shampoos.
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
Hexyleneglycol appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shampoos.
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: surfactant - emulsifying, skin conditioning, solvent, surfactant - cleansing, perfuming
Products with Hexyleneglycol
in 3 products
L'Oréal Elvital Shampoo Color ViveL'Oréal · shampoo
Eau précieuse Gel nettoyant purifiant visage et corpsEau précieuse · cleanser
Bliss Makeup Melt Jelly CleanserBliss · cleanser
Showing 3 of 3 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- surfactant - emulsifying
- skin conditioning
- solvent
- surfactant - cleansing
- perfuming
- surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
- skin conditioning: Maintaining the skin in good condition.
- solvent: Dissolving other components of cosmetics. Solvents are usually liquids (aqueous and nonaqueous).
- surfactant - cleansing: Wetting body surfaces, emulsifying or solubilizing oils, and suspending soil (generally, such ingredients contribute to the foaming and lathering properties of cleansing products).
CAS 107-41-5 · EC 203-489-0
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.