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INCI ingredient

Levulinic Acid

Also listed as: Levulinic Acid'

Levulinic Acid appears on 149 ingredient lists in our database, most often in cream or lotions.

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

Levulinic Acid appears on 149 ingredient lists in our database, most often in cream or lotions.

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: skin conditioning, perfuming

Products with Levulinic Acid

in 149 products

Showing 24 of 149 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • skin conditioning
  • perfuming
  • skin conditioning: Maintaining the skin in good condition.
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 123-76-2 · EC 204-649-2

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.

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