Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Candelilla Cera in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Candelilla Cera is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 93 products, most often lip balms.
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What does Candelilla Cera do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Candelilla Cera softens and smooths the skin, and leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and film forming.
What is Candelilla Cera?
Candelilla Cera is the extract of the wax obtained from the candelilla, Euphorbia cerifera, Euphorbiaceae.
- CAS number
- 8006-44-8
- EC number
- 232-347-0
- CosIng reference
- 32382
Which products contain Candelilla Cera?
Open Beauty Facts finds Candelilla Cera in the ingredient lists of 93 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip balms, face care and lip makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 23 · France 20 · Norway 19 · Turkey 6.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Candelilla Cera 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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