Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
N-Butyl Alcohol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
N-Butyl Alcohol is a cosmetic ingredient that dissolves other ingredients. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 97 products, most often nail polishes.
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What does N-Butyl Alcohol do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, N-Butyl Alcohol dissolves other ingredients, adds scent and makes alcohol undrinkable. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: solvent, perfuming and denaturant.
What other names and numbers does N-Butyl Alcohol have?
- CAS number
- 71-36-3
- EC number
- 200-751-6
- CosIng reference
- 35484
Which products contain N-Butyl Alcohol?
Open Beauty Facts finds N-Butyl Alcohol in the ingredient lists of 97 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often nail polishes, breathable nail polishes and makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: Turkey 64 · Türkiye 15 · France 9 · Germany 9.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where N-Butyl Alcohol 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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