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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Linoleic Acid in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Linoleic Acid is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 57 products, most often soaps.

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What does Linoleic Acid do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Linoleic Acid softens and smooths the skin, lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, and cleans the skin, hair or teeth. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, surfactant, cleansing, skin conditioning, hair conditioning and antistatic.

emollientsurfactantcleansingskin conditioninghair conditioningantistatic

What other names and numbers does Linoleic Acid have?

CAS number
60-33-3 (CIS)
EC number
200-470-9 (CIS)
CosIng reference
77323

Which products contain Linoleic Acid?

Open Beauty Facts finds Linoleic Acid in the ingredient lists of 57 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often soaps, body care and facial creams.

  • Soaps3
  • Body care3
  • Facial creams3
  • Skincare3

Products with it, by country of sale: France 13 · United States 8 · Germany 8 · Turkey 5.

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

On these listsSurfactants and cleansersEmollients

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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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