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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Cetyl Ricinoleate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Cetyl Ricinoleate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 21 products, most often skincare.

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What does Cetyl Ricinoleate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Cetyl Ricinoleate 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 other names and numbers does Cetyl Ricinoleate have?

CAS number
10401-55-5
EC number
233-864-4
CosIng reference
75045

Which products contain Cetyl Ricinoleate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Cetyl Ricinoleate in the ingredient lists of 21 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often skincare, facial creams and moisturizers.

  • Skincare2
  • Facial creams2
  • Moisturizers1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 6 · Australia 4 · United States 2 · Germany 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cetyl Ricinoleate 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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