Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Myristyl Myristate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 212 products, most often body care.

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What does Myristyl Myristate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Myristyl Myristate softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning and opacifying.

emollientskin conditioningopacifying

What other names and numbers does Myristyl Myristate have?

CAS number
3234-85-3
EC number
221-787-9
CosIng reference
35459

Which products contain Myristyl Myristate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Myristyl Myristate in the ingredient lists of 212 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, body creams and hand creams.

  • Body care25
  • Body creams16
  • Hand creams15
  • Lip balms14

Products with it, by country of sale: France 58 · Germany 53 · Turkey 17 · Netherlands 11.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Myristyl Myristate 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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