Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Bravoora reads it as tree nuts. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 6 products, most often body care.
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What does Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil softens and smooths the skin, and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and skin conditioning.
What is Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil?
Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the nuts of the Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae.
- CAS number
- 356065-50-4
- CosIng reference
- 54670
Does Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil come from a food allergen?
Bravoora’s label checker reads Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil as tree nuts, because the name points to it: a profile that avoids tree nuts gets Not for you on a product with it. Cosmetic labels use INCI names and no food-allergen rule applies to them, so the name is the only clue.
Who should look out for Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil?
Which products contain Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil?
Open Beauty Facts finds Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil in the ingredient lists of 6 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, lip makeup and body creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 1 · Bolivia 1 · Argentina 1 · United Kingdom 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
Bravoora reads this ingredient for everyone you shop for: an allergy or intolerance, a vegan or vegetarian diet, a calorie or protein goal, and the labels on supplements and skincare too. Build a profile · For dermatologists, dietitians and doctors
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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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