Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Linolenic Acid in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Linolenic Acid is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 27 products, most often soaps.
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What does Linolenic Acid do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Linolenic 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, perfuming and antistatic.
What other names and numbers does Linolenic Acid have?
- CAS number
- 463-40-1 (CIS)
- EC number
- 207-334-8 (CIS)
- CosIng reference
- 77324
Which products contain Linolenic Acid?
Open Beauty Facts finds Linolenic Acid in the ingredient lists of 27 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often soaps, body care and face care.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 7 · Germany 6 · Russia 2 · Canada 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Linolenic Acid 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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