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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Oleyl Alcohol is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 49 products, most often hair care.

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What does Oleyl Alcohol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Oleyl Alcohol softens and smooths the skin, makes the product thicker or thinner, and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, viscosity controlling, solvent, perfuming and masking.

emollientviscosity controllingsolventperfumingmasking

What other names and numbers does Oleyl Alcohol have?

CAS number
143-28-2, 593-47-5
EC number
205-597-3, 209-791-9
CosIng reference
78022

Which products contain Oleyl Alcohol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Oleyl Alcohol in the ingredient lists of 49 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care, hair dyes and hair conditioners.

  • Hair care7
  • Hair dyes2
  • Hair conditioners2

Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 16 · Norway 9 · France 8 · United States 3.

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