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Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 9 products, most often blush.

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What does Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate softens and smooths the skin, and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and skin conditioning.

emollientskin conditioning

What is Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate?

Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate is the ester of Caprylyl Alcohol with a mixture of Caprylic Acid and Capric Acid.

CosIng reference
89985

Which products contain Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate in the ingredient lists of 9 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often blush and deodorants.

  • Blush2
  • Deodorants1

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 3 · Singapore 3 · Spain 1 · Belgium 1.

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

On these listsEmollients

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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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