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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Butyloctanol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Butyloctanol is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 27 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Butyloctanol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Butyloctanol holds water in the skin or the product and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and solvent.

humectantsolvent

What other names and numbers does Butyloctanol have?

CAS number
3913-02-8
EC number
223-470-0
CosIng reference
74762

Which products contain Butyloctanol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Butyloctanol in the ingredient lists of 27 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, hair care and bath and shower.

  • Shampoos4
  • Hair care3
  • Bath and shower2
  • Hair mousse2

Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 8 · France 4 · Spain 3 · Germany 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Butyloctanol 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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