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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Myristyl Alcohol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Myristyl Alcohol is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 175 products, most often body care.

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What does Myristyl Alcohol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Myristyl Alcohol softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning, viscosity controlling, emulsion stabilising and foam boosting.

emollientskin conditioningviscosity controllingemulsion stabilisingfoam boosting

What other names and numbers does Myristyl Alcohol have?

CAS number
112-72-1
EC number
204-000-3
CosIng reference
77246

Which products contain Myristyl Alcohol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Myristyl Alcohol in the ingredient lists of 175 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, hair care and body creams.

  • Body care20
  • Hair care14
  • Body creams11
  • Hand creams9

Products with it, by country of sale: France 52 · Germany 19 · United States 16 · Spain 15.

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

On these listsEmollients

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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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