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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Alpha-Arbutin in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Alpha-Arbutin is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 11 products, most often skincare.

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What does Alpha-Arbutin do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Alpha-Arbutin stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, keeps the skin in good condition, and lightens the colour of skin or hair. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant, skin conditioning and bleaching.

antioxidantskin conditioningbleaching

What other names and numbers does Alpha-Arbutin have?

CAS number
84380-01-8
EC number
283-934-3
CosIng reference
54359

Which products contain Alpha-Arbutin?

Open Beauty Facts finds Alpha-Arbutin in the ingredient lists of 11 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often skincare and face care.

  • Skincare4
  • Face care3

Products with it, by country of sale: Turkey 4 · United States 2 · Türkiye 2 · Singapore 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Alpha-Arbutin turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsAntioxidants

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Sources

The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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