Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Resveratrol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Resveratrol is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 10 products, most often intimate washes.

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What does Resveratrol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Resveratrol stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, and protects the skin from outside harm. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant and skin protecting.

antioxidantskin protecting

What other names and numbers does Resveratrol have?

CAS number
501-36-0
EC number
*610-504-8
CosIng reference
59126

Which products contain Resveratrol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Resveratrol in the ingredient lists of 10 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often intimate washes and sunscreen.

  • Intimate washes2
  • Sunscreen1

Products with it, by country of sale: Turkey 4 · United States 2 · Spain 1 · South Africa 1.

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

  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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