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INCI ingredient

Myristic Acid

Myristic Acid appears on 180 ingredient lists in our database.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureplant or 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

Myristic Acid appears on 180 ingredient lists in our database.

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: perfuming, fragrance, opacifying, surfactant - cleansing

Products with Myristic Acid

in 180 products

Showing 24 of 180 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • perfuming
  • fragrance
  • opacifying
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.
  • 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 544-63-8 · EC 208-875-2

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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