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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 77 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate 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.

emollientskin conditioning

What other names and numbers does Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate have?

CosIng reference
74757

Which products contain Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate in the ingredient lists of 77 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen and perfumes.

  • Sunscreen29
  • Perfumes3

Products with it, by country of sale: France 20 · Germany 11 · Norway 7 · Netherlands 6.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate 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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