Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 14 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate softens and smooths the skin, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and emulsifying.

emollientemulsifying

What other names and numbers does Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate have?

CosIng reference
34050

Which products contain Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate in the ingredient lists of 14 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, hair care and soaps.

  • Shampoos5
  • Hair care3
  • Soaps1
  • Body creams1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 6 · Italy 4 · Turkey 2 · Belgium 1.

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

On these listsEmollientsEmulsifiers

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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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