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INCI ingredient

Potassium Chlorate

Potassium Chlorate appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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

Potassium Chlorate appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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: oxidising

Products with Potassium Chlorate

in 3 products

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • oxidising
  • oxidising: Changing the chemical nature of another ingredient by adding oxygen (or removing hydrogen).

CAS 3811-04-9 · EC 223-289-7

EU regulation

Listed in Annex III (ref. 6) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration (a) 5% (b) 3%. (a) Toothpaste (b) Other products III/6

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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