Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Asiaticoside in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Asiaticoside is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 17 products, most often body creams.

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What does Asiaticoside do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Asiaticoside stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, keeps the skin in good condition, and adds scent. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant, skin conditioning and perfuming.

antioxidantskin conditioningperfuming

What other names and numbers does Asiaticoside have?

CAS number
16830-15-2
EC number
240-851-7
CosIng reference
54535

Which products contain Asiaticoside?

Open Beauty Facts finds Asiaticoside in the ingredient lists of 17 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body creams, facial creams and body care.

  • Body creams2
  • Facial creams1
  • Body care1
  • Face care1
  • Face masks1
  • Cleansers1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 7 · Singapore 4 · Netherlands 2 · Japan 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Asiaticoside 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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