HOME / SKIN-CONDITIONING AGENTS & EMOLLIENTS / CETYL ALCOHOL
Canonical INCI Monograph #40

CETYL ALCOHOL

No MoCRA Allergen Alert Fungal Acne Safe

Standard cosmetic ingredient registered in INCI catalog.

CETYL ALCOHOL is catalogued in INCIDB under the CosIng functional class of Skin-Conditioning Agent, registered under CAS number 36653-82-4. Within the free INCIDB sample partition it is mapped to 3 indexed formulations spanning 2 product categories (Serum, Skincare), climbing to concentration rank #3 in Milbon No. 4 weekly booster medium hair. Its comedogenic rating of 2.0/5.0 reflects a low pore-clogging profile.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
36653-82-4
COSING PRIMARY FUNCTION
Skin-Conditioning Agent
COMEDOGENIC RATING
2.0 / 5.0
COMMON SYNONYM
Cetyl Alcohol

Sample Commercial Formulations with CETYL ALCOHOL

Verified concentration ranks from the free INCIDB sample partition. Full data mapping covers 19,645 commercial formulations.

PRODUCT NAME CATEGORY CONCENTRATION RANK
Papaya Clean Anti Blemish Facewash Skincare Rank #14
Dove Nourishing Body Care Intensiva Piel Extra Seca Skincare Rank #6
Milbon No. 4 weekly booster medium hair Serum Rank #3

Query CETYL ALCOHOL via PyArrow Parquet

Filter sub-second high-performance columnar Parquet files across all 19,645 beauty formulations.

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

# Load normalized INCI ingredients dataset
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()

# Locate exact compound ID and regulatory flags
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "CETYL ALCOHOL"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])
Download Full 19,645-Product Parquet ($99) →