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Diethylhexyl Adipate
Diethylhexyl AdipateBarrier
A light liquid that softens skin and dissolves other ingredients.
What it does
It’s adipic acid joined to two branched alcohols. It softens skin and helps dissolve other ingredients in a formula.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2012) assessed dicarboxylic acids and their salts and esters, diethylhexyl adipate among the esters. It softens skin and works as a solvent, and leave-on products used it at up to 14%. It can cause a liver effect seen only in rodents, which the reviewers judged not relevant to people. They judged the report’s ingredients safe as used.Fiume 2012 · International Journal of Toxicology 31(Supplement 1):5S-76S (CIR portal copy) ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
Also known as
dioctyl adipate
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