Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
C15-19 Alkane in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
C15-19 Alkane is a cosmetic ingredient that dissolves other ingredients. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 76 products, most often body care.
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What does C15-19 Alkane do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, C15-19 Alkane dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: solvent.
What is C15-19 Alkane?
C15-C19 Alkane is a mixture of alkanes with 15 to 19 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain.
- CAS number
- 64741-76-0, 64742-46-7
- EC number
- 265-077-7, 265-148-2
- CosIng reference
- 91129
Which products contain C15-19 Alkane?
Open Beauty Facts finds C15-19 Alkane in the ingredient lists of 76 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, deodorants and sunscreen.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 19 · United States 8 · Germany 7 · India 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where C15-19 Alkane 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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