Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 46 products, most often body care.
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What does C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant and emulsifying.
What is C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside?
C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside is the product obtained by the condensation of C12-20 alcohols with glucose.
- CosIng reference
- 54882
Which products contain C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside?
Open Beauty Facts finds C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside in the ingredient lists of 46 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, deodorants and roll-on deodorants.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 19 · Germany 4 · United States 4 · Morocco 3.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside 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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