Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Dicaprylyl Ether in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Dicaprylyl Ether is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 317 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Dicaprylyl Ether do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Dicaprylyl Ether softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning and solvent.

emollientskin conditioningsolvent

What other names and numbers does Dicaprylyl Ether have?

CAS number
629-82-3
EC number
211-112-6
CosIng reference
75672

Which products contain Dicaprylyl Ether?

Open Beauty Facts finds Dicaprylyl Ether in the ingredient lists of 317 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, body care and deodorants.

  • Sunscreen34
  • Body care21
  • Deodorants13

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 100 · France 72 · United States 28 · Australia 25.

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