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INCI ingredient

PEG-4 Distearyl Ether

PEG-4 Distearyl Ether appears on 8 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair cares.

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

PEG-4 Distearyl Ether appears on 8 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair cares.

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: hair conditioning, opacifying, plasticiser, skin conditioning

Products with PEG-4 Distearyl Ether

in 8 products

Showing 8 of 8 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • hair conditioning
  • opacifying
  • plasticiser
  • skin conditioning
  • 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.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.
  • plasticiser: Softening and making supple synthetic polumers that otherwise could not be easily deformed, spread or worked out.
  • skin conditioning: Maintaining the skin in good condition.
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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