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INCI ingredient

Oleyl Alcohol

Also listed as: Oleyl Alcool

Oleyl Alcohol appears on 47 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair cares.

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

Oleyl Alcohol appears on 47 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair cares.

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 - emollient, fragrance, solvent, viscosity controlling, perfuming

Products with Oleyl Alcohol

in 47 products

Showing 24 of 47 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • skin conditioning - emollient
  • fragrance
  • solvent
  • viscosity controlling
  • perfuming
  • skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • solvent: Dissolving other components of cosmetics. Solvents are usually liquids (aqueous and nonaqueous).
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 143-28-2 / 593-47-5 · EC 205-597-3 / 209-791-9

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.

Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake