Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Ceresin in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Ceresin is a cosmetic ingredient that makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 55 products, most often lip balms.
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What does Ceresin do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Ceresin makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier, makes the product thicker or thinner and reduces static, so hair stays flat. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: hair conditioning, viscosity controlling, antistatic, binding, emulsion stabilising and opacifying.
What other names and numbers does Ceresin have?
- CAS number
- 8001-75-0
- EC number
- 232-290-1
- CosIng reference
- 75087
Which products contain Ceresin?
Open Beauty Facts finds Ceresin in the ingredient lists of 55 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip balms, lip makeup and body care.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 16 · France 7 · Canada 5 · Germany 4.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Ceresin 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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