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Methyl Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Methyl Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 9 products, most often laundry detergent.

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What does Methyl Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Methyl Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, and adds scent. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant and perfuming.

antioxidantperfuming

What other names and numbers does Methyl Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate have?

CAS number
6386-38-5
EC number
228-985-4
CosIng reference
58042

Which products contain Methyl Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Methyl Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate in the ingredient lists of 9 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often laundry detergent.

  • Laundry detergent1

Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 6 · Canada 1 · United States 1 · Australia 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Methyl Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsAntioxidants

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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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