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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Xylityl Sesquicaprylate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Xylityl Sesquicaprylate is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the product from spoiling. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 10 products, most often deodorants.

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What does Xylityl Sesquicaprylate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Xylityl Sesquicaprylate keeps the product from spoiling, holds water in the skin or the product, and lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: preservative, humectant, surfactant, skin conditioning and antimicrobial.

preservativehumectantsurfactantskin conditioningantimicrobial

What is Xylityl Sesquicaprylate?

Xylityl Sesquicaprylate is a mixture of mono- and diesters of Caprylic Acid and the hexitol anhydrides derived from Xylitol.

CAS number
181632-90-6
CosIng reference
89227

Which products contain Xylityl Sesquicaprylate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Xylityl Sesquicaprylate in the ingredient lists of 10 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, deodorant sticks and roll-on deodorants.

  • Deodorants4
  • Deodorant sticks1
  • Roll-on deodorants1
  • Shampoos1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 5 · United States 4 · Brazil 1.

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

On these listsPreservativesSurfactants and cleansersHumectants

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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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