The solubilities of methyl, ethyl, propyl, and butyl parabens have been determined in a series of normal alcohols. This pure solvent scan indicated a dielectric requirement of about 14 for the subject compounds. Another dielectric requirement may be postulated to exist at a value of about 30. There is seen to be good parallelism in the magnitude of solubility of these compounds in various 1-alkanols indicating interactions of a similar nature in the dissolution process.