Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Zinc Neodecanoate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Zinc Neodecanoate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 81 products, most often deodorants.

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What does Zinc Neodecanoate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Zinc Neodecanoate makes the product thicker or thinner, keeps a powder free-flowing and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, anticaking and opacifying.

viscosity controllinganticakingopacifying

What other names and numbers does Zinc Neodecanoate have?

CAS number
27253-29-8
EC number
248-370-4
CosIng reference
38967

Which products contain Zinc Neodecanoate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Zinc Neodecanoate in the ingredient lists of 81 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants and cologne.

  • Deodorants35
  • Cologne1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 44 · Australia 16 · Germany 8 · Netherlands 5.

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