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INCI ingredient

Disodium Pyrophosphate

Disodium Pyrophosphate appears on 95 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno 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

Disodium Pyrophosphate appears on 95 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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: anticorrosive, buffering, chelating

Products with Disodium Pyrophosphate

in 95 products

Showing 24 of 95 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • anticorrosive
  • buffering
  • chelating
  • anticorrosive: Preventing and or inhibiting the corrosion of the packaging material.
  • buffering: Stabilising the pH of an aqueous medium in a narrow range even if an acid or base is added. Altering and/or maintaining a cosmetic product's pH at the desired level.
  • chelating: Forming complexes with metal ions which could affect the stability and/or appearance of cosmetics.

CAS 7758-16-9 · EC 231-835-0

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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