Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Ubiquinone in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Ubiquinone is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 120 products, most often body care.

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What does Ubiquinone do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Ubiquinone stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant and skin conditioning.

antioxidantskin conditioning

What other names and numbers does Ubiquinone have?

CAS number
303-98-0, 1339-63-5, 60684-33-5
EC number
206-147-9, 215-668-0
CosIng reference
38807

Which products contain Ubiquinone?

Open Beauty Facts finds Ubiquinone in the ingredient lists of 120 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, toothpastes and anti-wrinkle creams.

  • Body care7
  • Toothpastes6
  • Anti-wrinkle creams5
  • Facial creams5

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 32 · France 28 · United States 12 · Australia 8.

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