Calcium Stearate
Calcium Stearate appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in scrubs.
What it triggers
- Vegan originNot sureplant or animal source
- FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
- ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
- SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
- SiliconeNonot a silicone
- AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol
What it does
Calcium Stearate appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in scrubs.
It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.
We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.
Functions: anticaking, colorant, emulsion stabilising, viscosity controlling
Products with Calcium Stearate
in 2 products
Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
Functions listed by CosIng
- anticaking
- colorant
- emulsion stabilising
- viscosity controlling
- anticaking: Preventing agglomeration of particulate solids into lumps or hard masses (cohesive cake), thus allowing free flow of particles.
- colorant: Exclusively or mainly intended to colour the cosmetic product, the body as a whole or certain parts thereof, by absorption or reflection of visible light; (precursors of oxidative hair colorants shall be deemed colorants). All authorised colorants are substances in the positive list of Annex IV to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.
- emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
- viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
CAS 1592-23-0 · EC 216-472-8
EU regulation
Listed in Annex IV (ref. 150) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. IV/150
Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.
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