Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 93 products, most often body care.
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What does Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning and hair conditioning.
What other names and numbers does Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate have?
- CAS number
- 90411-68-0
- EC number
- 291-445-1
- CosIng reference
- 75136
Which products contain Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate in the ingredient lists of 93 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, face care and facial creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: Spain 28 · France 21 · Morocco 17 · Germany 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate 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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