Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Butyl Acetate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Butyl Acetate is a cosmetic ingredient that dissolves other ingredients. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 145 products, most often nail polishes.
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What does Butyl Acetate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Butyl Acetate dissolves other ingredients and hides an unwanted smell or taste. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: solvent and masking.
What other names and numbers does Butyl Acetate have?
- CAS number
- 123-86-4
- EC number
- 204-658-1
- CosIng reference
- 74737
Which products contain Butyl Acetate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Butyl Acetate in the ingredient lists of 145 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often nail polishes, nail makeup and breathable nail polishes.
Products with it, by country of sale: Turkey 65 · France 29 · Türkiye 16 · Germany 13.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Butyl Acetate 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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