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INCI ingredient

PEG-20 Stearate

PEG-20 Stearate appears on 23 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.

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

PEG-20 Stearate appears on 23 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.

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: surfactant - emulsifying, humectant, surfactant - cleansing

Products with PEG-20 Stearate

in 23 products

Showing 23 of 23 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • surfactant - emulsifying
  • humectant
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
  • humectant: Retaining and/or preserving the moisture in a product during use.
  • surfactant - cleansing: Wetting body surfaces, emulsifying or solubilizing oils, and suspending soil (generally, such ingredients contribute to the foaming and lathering properties of cleansing products).

CAS 9004-99-3

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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