Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
C14-22 Alcohols in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
C14-22 Alcohols is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps an emulsion from separating. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 48 products, most often deodorants.
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What does C14-22 Alcohols do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, C14-22 Alcohols keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: emulsion stabilising.
What is C14-22 Alcohols?
C14-22 Alcohols is a mixture of synthetic fatty alcohols with 14 to 22 carbons in the alkyl chain.
- CosIng reference
- 54892
Which products contain C14-22 Alcohols?
Open Beauty Facts finds C14-22 Alcohols in the ingredient lists of 48 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, roll-on deodorants and facial creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 18 · Germany 5 · Morocco 5 · United States 4.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where C14-22 Alcohols 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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