Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Dicetyldimonium Chloride in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Dicetyldimonium Chloride is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 23 products, most often hair conditioners.
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What does Dicetyldimonium Chloride do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Dicetyldimonium Chloride lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, keeps oil and water mixed, and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, emulsifying, hair conditioning and antistatic.
What other names and numbers does Dicetyldimonium Chloride have?
- CAS number
- 1812-53-9
- EC number
- 217-325-0
- CosIng reference
- 33258
Which products contain Dicetyldimonium Chloride?
Open Beauty Facts finds Dicetyldimonium Chloride in the ingredient lists of 23 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair conditioners and hair care.
Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 7 · United States 5 · Norway 3 · Turkey 3.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Dicetyldimonium Chloride 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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