Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Betaine Salicylate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Betaine Salicylate is a cosmetic ingredient that slows the growth of microbes on the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 6 products, most often face care.
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What does Betaine Salicylate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Betaine Salicylate slows the growth of microbes on the skin and loosens dead skin cells. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antimicrobial and keratolytic.
What is Betaine Salicylate?
Betaine Salycilate is the product formed by the reaction of Betaine with Salycilic Acid.
- CosIng reference
- 54747
Which products contain Betaine Salicylate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Betaine Salicylate in the ingredient lists of 6 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care, cleansers and face masks.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2 · Russia 1 · Brunei 1 · India 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Betaine Salicylate turns up, not how much of the market it is.
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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’.
- 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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