Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 33 products, most often shower gels.
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What does Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming and emulsion stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose have?
- CAS number
- 80455-45-4
- CosIng reference
- 74959
Which products contain Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose?
Open Beauty Facts finds Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose in the ingredient lists of 33 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shower gels, shampoo and shower gels and hair care.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 12 · United Kingdom 4 · Australia 4 · Spain 3.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose 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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