“Cinnamyl Alcohol?”Here!
Hasn’t appeared in a scanned product yet.
In personal care
An aromatic alcohol found naturally in cinnamon bark and other plants, and also made synthetically. It has a sweet, balsamic scent.
Why it’s used
Used as a fragrance ingredient to contribute scent to perfumes, lotions, and other scented products.
What the evidence says
We haven’t found a source for this one that you can open and check, so we’re not summarizing the evidence.
Look it up yourself
We would rather point you at the shelf than summarize something you can’t check. These are the same places we search:
- PubChem — what the substance is, chemically — names, synonyms and structure
- PubMed — every paper indexed by the US National Library of Medicine that names it
These are starting points, not our findings — we haven’t run them for you. A substance whose name is also an ordinary word (“Heart”, “Alanine”, “Water”) will return papers that are not about the ingredient at all.
Context
The concern is allergic skin reaction in people already sensitized, not general toxicity; labeling requirements apply above specific concentration thresholds, reflecting that risk scales with exposure level and prior sensitization rather than mere presence.
No claims graded here yet.