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INCI ingredient

Polyhydroxystearic Acid

Polyhydroxystearic Acid appears on 100 ingredient lists in our database, most often in eye makeups.

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

Polyhydroxystearic Acid appears on 100 ingredient lists in our database, most often in eye makeups.

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 Polyhydroxystearic Acid

in 100 products

Showing 24 of 100 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • 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 - / -

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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