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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 224 products, most often hair care.

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What does Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, cleans the skin, hair or teeth, and makes foam. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, cleansing and foaming.

surfactantcleansingfoaming

What other names and numbers does Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside have?

CAS number
68515-73-1
EC number
500-220-1
CosIng reference
32427

Which products contain Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside?

Open Beauty Facts finds Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside in the ingredient lists of 224 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care, shampoos and shower gels.

  • Hair care20
  • Shampoos18
  • Shower gels10
  • Bath and shower9

Products with it, by country of sale: France 81 · Germany 38 · United States 27 · Australia 23.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsSurfactants and cleansers

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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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