Glycerin Stearate
Also listed as: Glycerin, Glycerol Stearate, Glycérin Stearate
Glycerin Stearate appears on 9 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hand creams.
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
Glycerin Stearate appears on 9 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hand creams.
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: denaturant, hair conditioning, humectant, oral care, skin protecting, solvent, viscosity controlling, perfuming, fragrance, skin conditioning - humectant
Products with Glycerin Stearate
in 9 products
- no photoAfrican Shades & Tones Drip Fruit Burst Moisturizing Hand & Body LotionAfrican Shades & Tones · hand cream
- no photoAfrican Shades & Tones Drip Very Vanilla UnisexAfrican Shades & Tones · body moisturizer
Heïva Gommage Masque Doux à l'argile BlancheHeïva · scrub- no photoVaseline Intensive Care Advanced RepairVaseline
- no photoAfrican Shades & Tones Drip Very VanillaAfrican Shades & Tones · body moisturizer
Magic ClearMagic
gel d'aloe veraAloe · skin care
huile d'amande niveaNivea · body and face oil- no photoAfrican Shades & Tones Drip Fruit Burst UnisexAfrican Shades & Tones · body moisturizer
Showing 9 of 9 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- denaturant
- hair conditioning
- humectant
- oral care
- skin protecting
- solvent
- viscosity controlling
- perfuming
- fragrance
- skin conditioning - humectant
- denaturant: Rendering cosmetics unpalatable. Mostly added to cosmetics containing ethyl alcohol to make it unsuitable for ingestion.
- hair conditioning: Enhancing the appearance and feel of hair. Leaving the hair easy to comb, supple, soft and shiny and/or imparting volume, lightness, gloss, texture, etc.
- humectant: Retaining and/or preserving the moisture in a product during use.
- oral care: Providing cosmetic effects to the oral cavity, e.g. cleansing, deodorising, protecting.
CAS 56-81-5 · EC 200-289-5
Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.
CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.
Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.