Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Glyceryl Behenate/Eicosadioate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Glyceryl Behenate/Eicosadioate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 10 products, most often lip tint.
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What does Glyceryl Behenate/Eicosadioate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Behenate/Eicosadioate softens and smooths the skin, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and emulsifying.
What other names and numbers does Glyceryl Behenate/Eicosadioate have?
- CosIng reference
- 56205
Which products contain Glyceryl Behenate/Eicosadioate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Behenate/Eicosadioate in the ingredient lists of 10 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip tint, lip makeup and makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: Türkiye 4 · Singapore 3 · United States 2 · Turkey 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Glyceryl Behenate/Eicosadioate 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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