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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Butylene Glycol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Butylene Glycol is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 1,282 products, most often face care.

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What does Butylene Glycol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Butylene Glycol holds water in the skin or the product, keeps the skin in good condition and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant, skin conditioning, viscosity controlling, solvent and masking.

humectantskin conditioningviscosity controllingsolventmasking

What other names and numbers does Butylene Glycol have?

CAS number
107-88-0
EC number
203-529-7
CosIng reference
74756

Which products contain Butylene Glycol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Butylene Glycol in the ingredient lists of 1,282 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care, face makeup and hair care.

  • Face care54
  • Face makeup42
  • Hair care38
  • Sunscreen38

Products with it, by country of sale: France 287 · United States 196 · Germany 146 · Australia 87.

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

On these listsHumectants

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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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