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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Decyl Glucoside in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Decyl Glucoside is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 634 products, most often shower gels.

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What does Decyl Glucoside do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Decyl Glucoside lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, cleans the skin, hair or teeth, and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, cleansing and emulsion stabilising.

surfactantcleansingemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does Decyl Glucoside have?

CAS number
54549-25-6, 58846-77-8, 141464-42-8, 68515-73-1
EC number
259-218-1
CosIng reference
75502

Which products contain Decyl Glucoside?

Open Beauty Facts finds Decyl Glucoside in the ingredient lists of 634 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shower gels, shampoos and bath and shower.

  • Shower gels66
  • Shampoos65
  • Bath and shower50
  • Hair care40

Products with it, by country of sale: France 268 · United States 90 · Germany 52 · Spain 33.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Decyl Glucoside turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsSurfactants and cleansers

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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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