Alcohol Free Determination

Some consumers prefer to use alcohol-free cosmetics because of their religious beliefs or because they believe that ethyl alcohol dries their skin or hair. Companies that have been producing cosmetics for many years offer some ethyl alcohol-free cosmetic products to consumers without alcohol.

Alcohols are a large and diverse family of chemicals that have diverse effects on the skin. Ingredient lists on cosmetic labels are sometimes confusing to determine alcohol content. The expression alcohol in cosmetic labeling refers to ethyl alcohol. In contrast, cosmetics, including those labeled alcohol-free, may contain other alcohols such as cetyl, stearyl, cetearyl, or lanolin alcohol. These are known as fatty alcohols and their effects on the skin are quite different from ethyl alcohol. Isopropyl alcohol, which some consumers think of as drying the skin, is rarely used in cosmetics.

Ethyl alcohol in a cosmetic is denatured to prevent it from being used as an alcoholic beverage. This means it contains an added denaturant that makes it undrinkable. Alcohol denat, a type of alcohol like a solvent. It often adds a super-light texture to chemical sunscreens, helps deliver skincare actives deeper into the skin, and gives the skin a feeling of tightness and narrows pores.

In the test, analysis, measurement and evaluation studies carried out in our organization, national and international standards and applicable legal regulations are complied with and reliable and impartial results are obtained. Alcohol-free determination services are among the numerous tests performed in this context.