Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Lauryl Alcohol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Lauryl Alcohol is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 76 products, most often hair care.
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What does Lauryl Alcohol do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Lauryl Alcohol softens and smooths the skin, keeps oil and water mixed, and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, emulsifying, viscosity controlling and emulsion stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Lauryl Alcohol have?
- CAS number
- 112-53-8
- EC number
- 203-982-0
- CosIng reference
- 77060
Which products contain Lauryl Alcohol?
Open Beauty Facts finds Lauryl Alcohol in the ingredient lists of 76 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care, shampoos and shower gels.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 41 · Germany 10 · Spain 7 · United States 6.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Lauryl Alcohol 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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