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INCI ingredient

Potassium Nitrate

Potassium Nitrate appears on 55 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 Nitrate appears on 55 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: oral care, soothing

Products with Potassium Nitrate

in 55 products

Showing 24 of 55 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • oral care
  • soothing
  • oral care: Providing cosmetic effects to the oral cavity, e.g. cleansing, deodorising, protecting.
  • soothing: Lightening discomfort of the skin or of the scalp.

CAS 7757-79-1 · EC 231-818-8

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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