Hexenyl Acetate

Ingredient guide

What it is and what it does

About this ingredient: EU CosIng ingredient registry (via Open Beauty Facts taxonomy) ↗

Flavouring

Adds or modifies a product's flavour, including in oral-care products such as toothpaste.

Masking

Reduces or conceals the formula's underlying odour or taste.

Perfuming

A formulation role for perfume and aromatic raw materials that give a product its scent.

Function definitions: European Commission JRC: Flavouring roles in toothpaste formulations ↗ · European Commission ingredient function definitions (SCCNFP/0299/00, pages 16 to 20) ↗ · Danish Environmental Protection Agency: Cosmetic fragrance functions ↗

Registry functions describe possible formulation roles, not results for a finished product. A dictionary entry is not an approval or a safety assessment.

We have not yet published a checked study for this exact ingredient. This is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that research does not exist or that the ingredient is ineffective.

Ingredient research is not proof that a product containing this ingredient works.

From the wider catalogue. Linked by the ingredient list, without an efficacy ranking.

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Inside the formula

Names and identifiers

INCI name on ingredient lists

HEXENYL ACETATE

CAS registry number

3681-71-8, 2497-18-9

EC number

222-960-1 / 219-680-7