Body & Beauty / Compounds / Garlic oil

Garlic oil on your skin: a safety profile

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Safety profile for Garlic oil relevant to people.

What is garlic oil?

Also known as: Diallyl trisulfide, ALLYL TRISULFIDE, Allitridin, Trisulfide, di-2-propenyl.

CAS number
8008-99-9
Molecular formula
C6H10S3
Molecular weight
178.3 g/mol
SMILES
C=CCSSSCC=C
PubChem CID
16315

Risk for people

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Regulatory consensus

1 regulatory bodyhas classified Garlic oil.

AgencyYearClassificationNotes
Unknown——

Regulators apply different standards of evidence — animal-data weighting, exposure-pattern assumptions, epidemiological power thresholds — which is why two scientific bodies can review the same data and reach different conclusions. The disagreement is the data.

Where you encounter garlic oil

  • Personal Care — perfume, soap, cosmetics
  • Consumer Products — cleaning products, candles

Safer alternatives

Lower-risk approaches that achieve a similar outcome to Garlic oil:

  • Lower-sensitization structural analog; Unscented formulation
    Trade-offs: Eliminates allergen risk entirely; consumer acceptance varies (some associate scent with cleanliness/efficacy); growing market segment; regulatory advantage in EU (no IFRA compliance needed).
    Relative cost: 1.2-2×

Frequently asked questions

What products contain garlic oil?

Garlic oil appears in: perfume (Personal care); soap (Personal care); cleaning products (Consumer products); candles (Consumer products).

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Sources (1)
  1. PubChem (2026) — database

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