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INCI ingredient

Isopropyl Alcohol

Also listed as: Isopropanol, Rubbing Alcohol, Isopropyl Alkohol

Rubbing alcohol, a drying alcohol used as a solvent and antimicrobial.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholYesa drying alcohol

If a product lists Isopropyl Alcohol, its alcohol-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Isopropyl alcohol is a small, fast-evaporating alcohol. It dissolves resins in nail products and hair sprays, keeps aerosol foams from clogging and appears in some hand gels and aftershaves. CosIng lists it as solvent, antifoaming and viscosity controlling.

It is a drying alcohol, so the alcohol-free answer is no. It is synthetic and does not affect the other checks.

Functions: solvent, antifoaming

Products with Isopropyl Alcohol

in 545 products

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In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antifoaming
  • solvent
  • viscosity controlling
  • perfuming
  • antifoaming: Suppressing foam during manufacturing or reducing the tendency of finished products to generate foam.
  • solvent: Dissolving other components of cosmetics. Solvents are usually liquids (aqueous and nonaqueous).
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 67-63-0 · EC 200-661-7

EU regulation

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.

Alcohol-free instead

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