Linoleic Acid Essential Unsaturated Fatty Acid Skin Barrier Repair Anti-Inflammatory Oil-Water Balance Cosmetic Raw Material(CAS 60-33-3)
Product Name:High-Purity Linoleic Acid Natural Essential Unsaturated Fatty Acid Barrier Repair Anti-Inflammatory Oil-Balancing Cosmetic Raw Material
INCI Name: Linoleic Acid
Alias: LA, Linolic Acid, Omega-6 Essential Fatty Acid, Skin Barrier Core Factor, Sebum Membrane Repair Active, Inflammatory Acne Soothing Ingredient, Oil-Skin Refining Raw Material
CAS No.: 60-33-3
Appearance: Colorless to pale yellow transparent oily liquid, pure and delicate texture, slight characteristic fatty odor, stable physical and chemical properties.
Grade: Cosmetic Premium High-Purity Grade
MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity): 25KG
Solubility: Insoluble in water, fully soluble in oil-phase solvents such as vegetable oil, mineral oil and ester oil, compatible with all conventional emulsified systems.
Storage Condition: Sealed and stored in dry, cool and ventilated warehouse, storage temperature 5–25℃, avoid direct strong sunlight irradiation, high temperature heating and long-term air exposure. Keep tightly sealed after opening to prevent oxidative deterioration, rancidity and activity attenuation, and ensure long-term stable barrier repair and oil-balancing efficacy.
Shelf Life: 24 Months
Linoleic Acid, Essential Fatty Acid, Skin Barrier Repair, Anti-Inflammatory, Oil-Water Balance, Sebum Regulation, Stratum Corneum Maintenance, Anti-Acne, Cosmetic Raw Material
Linoleic Acid Essential Unsaturated Fatty Acid Skin Barrier Repair Anti-Inflammatory Oil-Water Balance Cosmetic Raw Material(CAS 60-33-3)
Linoleic Acid is a core essential fatty acid for skin health and a key structural raw material for constructing stratum corneum barrier and sebum film. It solves the root cause of problematic skin from the perspective of skin lipid nutrition and barrier reconstruction, making up for the defects of single oil-control and anti-inflammatory ingredients.
Insufficient linoleic acid in the skin will lead to incomplete barrier structure, disordered sebum metabolism, frequent inflammation and rough pores.
High-purity cosmetic-grade linoleic acid efficiently supplements skin lipid deficiency, repairs damaged barrier closure, inhibits mild inflammatory proliferation, regulates healthy oil-water circulation, and fundamentally improves sensitive fragility, oily disorder and acne-prone skin.
With ultra-high skin affinity, mild and non-irritating long-term maintenance attributes and stable formula efficacy, it is an indispensable basic upgraded functional raw material for healthy skin barrier care and oily problematic skin conditioning formulas.



Key Benefits
• Reconstruct Skin Barrier, Enhance Skin Resistance: As an endogenous core lipid of the skin, it precisely fills the gap of stratum corneum lipids, repairs damaged and incomplete barrier structure, improves skin fragile and easy-sensitive state, enhances external stimulation resistance, and realizes long-term skin stability.
• Targeted Anti-Inflammatory & Soothe Acne Lesions: Effectively inhibit the proliferation of mild inflammatory factors in the skin, relieve redness, swelling and sensitivity caused by inflammatory reactions, improve recurrent inflammatory acne and closed acne problems, and reduce acne mark residual probability.
• Intelligent Sebum Regulation, Improve Oil-Water Imbalance: Different from rigid oil-control ingredients, it regulates sebum secretion from the source, improves excessive oil shine caused by barrier damage, avoids dry and tight peeling caused by insufficient lipid secretion, and radically improves oily-dry sensitive skin.
• Refine Pores & Smooth Rough Texture: Promote benign metabolism of pore grease and aged keratin, dredge blocked pore dirt accumulation, improve enlarged coarse pores and uneven rough skin texture, and restore skin delicate and smooth touch.
• Ultra-High Skin Affinity, Mild & Safe For Long-Term Use: Consistent with human skin endogenous lipid components, no rejection, low irritation, high safety. It is suitable for barrier-damaged sensitive skin, oily acne-prone skin and dry dehydrated skin, and supports long-term daily skin nutrition maintenance.
• Stable Oil-Soluble Formula, Strong Compatibility & High Cost Performance: Excellent oil solubility, easy to emulsify and deploy, stable activity and not easy to deteriorate. One material integrates barrier repair, anti-inflammatory acne soothing, oil balance and pore refining effects, simplifying formula structure and upgrading product core competitiveness at low cost.
Applications
• Skin Barrier Repair Series: Core lipid repair active for damaged sensitive skin, reconstructing stratum corneum barrier and improving fragile sensitive state.
• Oily Skin Oil-Water Balancing Products: Intelligent sebum regulating raw material for oily and combination skin, improving external oiliness and internal dryness and stabilizing skin oil state.
• Inflammatory Acne Soothing Skincare: Special anti-inflammatory and soothing ingredient for acne-prone skin, improving inflammatory acne, closed pores and red and swollen skin lesions.
• Pore Refining & Smoothing Series: Professional skin refining active for rough enlarged pore skin, dredging pore grease and smoothing uneven texture.
• Lipid Nutrition Maintenance Products: Essential nutritional active for daily skin lipid supplementation, maintaining healthy sebum film and long-term stable skin state.
• Emulsion & Cream Functional Formulas: Ideal synergistic lipid raw material for emulsified systems, improving product skin-fitting feeling and enhancing barrier repair functional attributes.
Certificate Of Analysis (COA)
Test Item | Standard Specification | Test Result |
Product Name | Linoleic Acid | Compliant |
Appearance | Colorless to Pale Yellow Transparent Oily Liquid | Compliant |
Purity (%) | ≥98.0 (Customizable) | 98.65 |
Acid Value (mg/g) | 195.0–205.0 | 201.2 |
Iodine Value (g/100g) | 145.0–165.0 | 156.8 |
Moisture (%) | ≤0.1 | 0.06 |
Heavy Metal (Pb) | ≤1ppm | 0.1ppm |
Arsenic (As) | ≤0.5ppm | Not Detected |
Mercury (Hg) | ≤0.1ppm | Not Detected |
Cadmium (Cd) | ≤0.1ppm | Not Detected |
Total Bacteria | ≤100CFU/g | Qualified |
Pathogenic Bacteria | Negative | Negative |
Conclusion | Conforms to cosmetic grade quality standard | Qualified |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Q1: What is the MOQ of Linoleic Acid?
A1: The standard MOQ is 25KG, support sample orders for formula testing, barrier repair and oil-water balance efficacy debugging and finished product trial production, and support customized purity specifications for mass production.
• Q2: What is the core formula positioning of Linoleic Acid?
A2: It is a high-purity essential fatty acid functional raw material integrating barrier reconstruction, inflammatory soothing, sebum regulation and pore refining. It focuses on solving barrier damage, oil-water imbalance, inflammatory acne and rough pores, and is used for barrier health care and oily problematic skin formula upgrading.
• Q3: What is the recommended dosage in cosmetic formulas?
A3: Conventional barrier maintenance: 0.2%–1.0%; Oily skin oil balance series: 0.5%–2.0%; Inflammatory acne soothing formulas: 0.8%–2.5%; Pore refining skin care: 0.3%–1.5%, adjustable according to product efficacy positioning and oil-phase emulsion system.
• Q4: What are the advantages of Linoleic Acid over ordinary lipid raw materials?
A4: Ordinary grease raw materials only have simple moisturizing effects without biological repair activity. High-purity Linoleic Acid is an endogenous essential lipid of the skin, with active effects of barrier repair, anti-inflammation and oil regulation. It can solve the root cause of oily sensitivity and acne problems caused by lipid deficiency, with more targeted efficacy and stronger skin health maintenance ability.
• Q5: What raw materials is it suitable for compounding?
A5: It is highly compatible with ceramides, cholesterol, panthenol, centella asiatica extract, niacinamide and plant soothing oils. The compound system can form a closed-loop efficacy system of "lipid supplement + barrier repair + anti-inflammatory acne soothing + oil balance", greatly improving the comprehensive repair capability of functional skincare products.
• Q6: What are the formula usage notes?
A6: Oil-soluble active raw material, suitable for oil-phase addition and emulsification process; recommended feeding temperature 40–70℃, avoid long-term high temperature above 80℃ and excessive air contact to prevent oxidative rancidity; sealed and light-proof storage of finished products is required to ensure stable efficacy, suitable for industrial emulsified product mass production.
• Q7: Can it provide stable supply and professional technical support?
A7: Strictly control core indicators such as purity, acid value, iodine value and heavy metals to ensure consistent batch stability. Support long-term bulk order supply, and provide one-stop professional services including barrier repair formula optimization, oily skin water balance efficacy upgrading, formula debugging and after-sales technical guidance.
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