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INCI ingredient

Hydroxycitronellal

Also listed as: Hydroxycitronellal', Hydroxycitronellal), Hydroxýcitronellal

A lily of the valley fragrance allergen that EU labels must declare by name.

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 Hydroxycitronellal, its fragrance-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Hydroxycitronellal is a synthetic scent molecule with a fresh floral note, used in many perfume blends for soaps, deodorants and creams. CosIng lists it as perfuming.

It is one of the fragrance allergens EU labels must declare above a set concentration, so seeing it means the product is scented and the fragrance-free answer is no.

Functions: fragrance, declared allergen

Products with Hydroxycitronellal

in 547 products

Showing 24 of 547 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • perfuming
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 107-75-5 · EC 203-518-7

EU regulation

Listed in Annex III (ref. 72) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration (b) 1,0 %. (a) Oral products (b) Other products III/72

CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

Fragrance-free instead

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