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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Behenic Acid in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Behenic Acid is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 22 products, most often deodorants.

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What does Behenic Acid do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Behenic Acid lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, cleans the skin, hair or teeth, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, cleansing, emulsifying and opacifying.

surfactantcleansingemulsifyingopacifying

What other names and numbers does Behenic Acid have?

CAS number
112-85-6
EC number
204-010-8
CosIng reference
74584

Which products contain Behenic Acid?

Open Beauty Facts finds Behenic Acid in the ingredient lists of 22 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, lip balms and hair care.

  • Deodorants3
  • Lip balms2
  • Hair care1
  • Hair masks1
  • Deodorant sticks1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 7 · United States 7 · Germany 3 · Singapore 3.

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

On these listsSurfactants and cleansersEmulsifiers

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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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