Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Myristyl Lactate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Myristyl Lactate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 10 products, most often lip balms.
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What does Myristyl Lactate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Myristyl Lactate softens and smooths the skin, and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and skin conditioning.
What other names and numbers does Myristyl Lactate have?
- CAS number
- 1323-03-1
- EC number
- 215-350-1
- CosIng reference
- 35457
Which products contain Myristyl Lactate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Myristyl Lactate in the ingredient lists of 10 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip balms, lip makeup and makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 4 · Italy 2 · Netherlands 1 · Austria 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Myristyl Lactate 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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