Glyceryl Hydroxystearate
Glyceryl Hydroxystearate appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in cream or lotions.
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
Glyceryl Hydroxystearate appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in cream or lotions.
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: skin conditioning - emollient, surfactant - emulsifying
Products with Glyceryl Hydroxystearate
in 2 products
Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- skin conditioning - emollient
- surfactant - emulsifying
- skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
- surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
CAS 1323-42-8 · EC 215-355-9
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.