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INCI ingredient

Glycerin Vegetable

Also listed as: Glycerin, Glycerin (Vegetable)

Glycerin Vegetable appears on 13 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

Glycerin Vegetable appears on 13 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: denaturant, hair conditioning, humectant, oral care, skin protecting, solvent, viscosity controlling, perfuming, fragrance, skin conditioning - humectant

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • 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

EU regulation

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.

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