"Ingredients/Ingrédients: Alcohol Denat ●
TL;DR. This ingredient is a fast-evaporating solvent used to dissolve fragrance materials, botanical extracts, UV filters, and resins. It also helps formulas dry quickly and can create a lighter, less greasy skin feel.
What does "Ingredients/Ingrédients: Alcohol Denat do in a cosmetic formula?
This ingredient is a fast-evaporating solvent used to dissolve fragrance materials, botanical extracts, UV filters, and resins. It also helps formulas dry quickly and can create a lighter, less greasy skin feel.
Is "Ingredients/Ingrédients: Alcohol Denat clean?
Clean-beauty standards generally accept this ingredient, but high levels can feel drying or sting on compromised skin. The main scrutiny is the specific agents used to make it non-potable, since those can vary by supplier and region.
Is "Ingredients/Ingrédients: Alcohol Denat sustainable?
This material can be made from fermented plant sugars or from petrochemical routes, so sourcing matters. It is readily biodegradable and does not meaningfully persist in water, but it is volatile and contributes to formula-related VOC load.
Is "Ingredients/Ingrédients: Alcohol Denat COSMOS-approved?
It can be permitted under COSMOS-natural and COSMOS-organic when it comes from allowed sources and uses compliant non-potable agents. From a Green Chemistry view, the best fit is plant-derived supply with simple fermentation, efficient distillation, and strong biodegradability.
How does "Ingredients/Ingrédients: Alcohol Denat work chemically?
The molecule is a small, polar, two-carbon volatile liquid that mixes readily with water and many organic raw materials. It is commonly used from low single digits to over 60% depending on format, remains broadly stable across normal cosmetic pH ranges, and can increase solubilization and penetration of other formula components.
Last updated 2026-05-13