Polyhydroxy Stearic Acid
Also listed as: Polyhydroxystearic Acid
Polyhydroxy Stearic Acid appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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
Polyhydroxy Stearic Acid appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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
Products with Polyhydroxy Stearic Acid
in 2 products
Lovéa Nature Crème visage Protection 100% Minérale SPF 50+Lovéa Nature · sunscreen
Laboratoires Biocos Crème visage protectrice SPF 50 anti-rides au Monoï de TahitiLaboratoires Biocos · sunscreen
Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- surfactant - emulsifying
- surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
CAS 27924-99-8 / 58128-22-6 · EC - / -
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.