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Oleyl Erucate
Oleyl ErucateBarrier
An oily ingredient that softens skin.
What it does
It’s made by joining oleyl alcohol, a fatty alcohol, to erucic acid, a fatty acid.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2015) assessed 237 alkyl esters, whose most common job in products is conditioning skin. Oleyl oleate, for one, is made from oleyl alcohol and oleic acid. Concerned that some of these esters could irritate skin, the reviewers judged them safe as used in products made not to irritate. Their conclusion names stearyl behenate, oleyl oleate, oleyl erucate and hexyldecyl laurate.Fiume 2015 · International Journal of Toxicology 34(Supplement 2):5S-69S (CIR portal copy) ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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