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Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 6 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil softens and smooths the skin, and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and hair conditioning.

emollienthair conditioning

What is Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil?

Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil is the oil expressed from the seeds of Pentaclethra macroloba, Fabaceae.

CAS number
866620-18-0
CosIng reference
83226

Which products contain Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil?

Open Beauty Facts finds Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil in the ingredient lists of 6 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos and hair care.

  • Shampoos3
  • Hair care1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2 · Morocco 2 · Portugal 1 · Colombia 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Pentaclethra Macroloba Seed Oil 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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