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INCI ingredient

Phenethyl Alcohol

Phenethyl Alcohol appears on 73 ingredient lists in our database, most often in liquid soaps.

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

Phenethyl Alcohol appears on 73 ingredient lists in our database, most often in liquid soaps.

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: fragrance

Products with Phenethyl Alcohol

in 73 products

Showing 24 of 73 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • fragrance
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.

CAS 60-12-8 · EC 200-456-2

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

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

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