Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Propanediol Dicaprylate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Propanediol Dicaprylate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 9 products, most often shaving.

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What does Propanediol Dicaprylate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Propanediol Dicaprylate softens and smooths the skin, and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and solvent.

emollientsolvent

What other names and numbers does Propanediol Dicaprylate have?

CAS number
1020852-63-4
CosIng reference
86855

Which products contain Propanediol Dicaprylate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Propanediol Dicaprylate in the ingredient lists of 9 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shaving, aftershaves and body care.

  • Shaving2
  • Aftershaves2
  • Body care1
  • Body creams1
  • Face care1
  • Facial creams1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 6 · Germany 2 · Turkey 1.

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