Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 7 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier, and helps against dandruff. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant, hair conditioning, antidandruff, antimicrobial, astringent and skin protecting.

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What is Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract?

Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract is an extract of the fruits of the Capsicum, Capsicum annuum L., Solanaceae.

CAS number
84625-29-6
EC number
283-403-6
CosIng reference
55144

Which products contain Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract?

Open Beauty Facts finds Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract in the ingredient lists of 7 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, bath and shower and shower gels.

  • Sunscreen1
  • Bath and shower1
  • Shower gels1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 2 · Deutschland 1 · Germany 1 · Portugal 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract 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’.

  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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