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Official EU label nameGlossary entry 4184

BUTYLENE GLYCOL PALMITATE

This record confirms an official common ingredient name for EU cosmetic product labelling. It does not by itself confirm that the substance is permitted, unrestricted or safe.

Global evidence snapshot

The resolved identity has matching regulatory evidence in 0 of 13 indexed market datasets: 0 country records and 0 EU Annex records. Every result and evidence gap is listed below.

0 markets with evidence
Markets checked
13
Markets with evidence
0
Evidence gaps
13
Resolved identifiers
1

Resolved substance identity

CAS:5384-26-9
Ingredient index records:
BUTYLENE GLYCOL PALMITATE
Cosmetic functions: SKIN CONDITIONING, SKIN CONDITIONING - EMOLLIENT, SURFACTANT - CLEANSING, SURFACTANT - EMULSIFYING

Palmitic Acid, 2-Hydroxybutyl Ester

1 matched or reported name
BUTYLENE GLYCOL PALMITATE

Regulatory evidence across markets

None of the 13 markets tracked here holds an imported rule under the name BUTYLENE GLYCOL PALMITATE.

That is a statement about this inventory, not about the law: no imported rule is not evidence that a substance is permitted. A rule may exist under a different name, under a CAS or EC number this glossary entry does not carry, or in a dataset not yet imported.

Chemical identity and properties

PubChem 2D chemical structure for CAS 5384-26-9
CAS 5384-26-9PubChem CID 57350692

Hexadecanoic acid--butane-1,4-diol (1/1)

IUPAC name
butane-1,4-diol;hexadecanoic acid
Molecular formula
C20H42O4
Molecular weight
346.5 g/mol
Exact mass
346.30830982 Da
Topological polar surface area
77.8 Ų
Hydrogen-bond donors
3
Hydrogen-bond acceptors
4
Covalent units
2
Defined stereocentres
0

Also known as

RefChem:347463
External database identifiers

Retrieved from NIH PubChem on 2026-08-31 by checksum-valid CAS matching. Chemical properties do not replace the regulatory decision on this page.

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Official source and scope

Imported from Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1175 (dataset version EU 2025/1175). The glossary supplies common ingredient names for the ingredient list required by Article 19(1)(g); it is not an approval or safety list.

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