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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Tocopherol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Tocopherol is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 3,779 products, most often body care.

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What does Tocopherol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Tocopherol stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, keeps the skin in good condition, and hides an unwanted smell or taste. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant, skin conditioning and masking.

antioxidantskin conditioningmasking

What other names and numbers does Tocopherol have?

Also named
vitamin E
CAS number
54-28-4 (gamma), 16698-35-4(beta), 10191-41-0(DL), 119-13-1, 1406-18-4, 1406-66-2, 2074-53-5 (DL), 59-02-9 (D), 7616-22-0
EC number
200-201-5, 240-747-1, 233-466-0, 204-299-0, 215-798-8, 218-197-9, 200-412-2
CosIng reference
80273

Which products contain Tocopherol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Tocopherol in the ingredient lists of 3,779 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care and sunscreen.

  • Body care177
  • Sunscreen145

Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,094 · Germany 693 · United States 481 · Australia 203.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Tocopherol turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsAntioxidants

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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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