Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Decylene Glycol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Decylene Glycol is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the skin in good condition. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 103 products, most often sunscreen.
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What does Decylene Glycol do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Decylene Glycol keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: skin conditioning.
What other names and numbers does Decylene Glycol have?
- CAS number
- 1119-86-4
- EC number
- 214-288-2
- CosIng reference
- 55718
Which products contain Decylene Glycol?
Open Beauty Facts finds Decylene Glycol in the ingredient lists of 103 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, body care and hand creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 39 · France 16 · United States 7 · Spain 6.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Decylene Glycol 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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