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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Behenyl Alcohol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Behenyl Alcohol is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 292 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Behenyl Alcohol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Behenyl Alcohol softens and smooths the skin, makes the product thicker or thinner, and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, viscosity controlling, binding and emulsion stabilising.

emollientviscosity controllingbindingemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does Behenyl Alcohol have?

CAS number
661-19-8
EC number
211-546-6
CosIng reference
74589

Which products contain Behenyl Alcohol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Behenyl Alcohol in the ingredient lists of 292 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, body care and face care.

  • Sunscreen25
  • Body care16
  • Face care12

Products with it, by country of sale: France 86 · United States 42 · Germany 28 · Australia 21.

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

On these listsEmollients

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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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