Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
T-Butyl Alcohol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
T-Butyl Alcohol is a cosmetic ingredient that dissolves other ingredients. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 57 products, most often anti-wrinkle creams.
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What does T-Butyl Alcohol do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, T-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 T-Butyl Alcohol have?
- CAS number
- 75-65-0
- EC number
- 200-889-7
- CosIng reference
- 38478
Which products contain T-Butyl Alcohol?
Open Beauty Facts finds T-Butyl Alcohol in the ingredient lists of 57 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often anti-wrinkle creams, sunscreen and day creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 21 · France 16 · Germany 9 · United States 8.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where T-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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