Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Hydrogenated Polydecene in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Hydrogenated Polydecene is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 104 products, most often lip balms.
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What does Hydrogenated Polydecene do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Hydrogenated Polydecene softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning, hair conditioning, solvent, perfuming and masking.
What other names and numbers does Hydrogenated Polydecene have?
- CAS number
- 68037-01-4
- EC number
- 500-183-1
- CosIng reference
- 76642
Which products contain Hydrogenated Polydecene?
Open Beauty Facts finds Hydrogenated Polydecene in the ingredient lists of 104 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip balms, lip makeup and face care.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 34 · United States 10 · Germany 8 · Turkey 8.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Hydrogenated Polydecene 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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