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INCI ingredient

Potassium Sorbate

Also listed as: Potassium Sorbate+, Potássium Sorbate, Potassium Sórbate, Potassium Sorbate)

A mild preservative against mould and yeast, common in paraben-free products.

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 sorbate is the salt of sorbic acid, originally found in rowan berries and now made synthetically. It is often paired with Sodium Benzoate.

It is not a paraben and affects none of the six checks.

Functions: preservative

Products with Potassium Sorbate

in 2,291 products

Showing 24 of 2,291 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • fragrance
  • preservative
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • preservative: Exclusively or mainly intended to inhibit the development of micro-organisms in the cosmetic product. All authorised preservatives are substances in the positive list of Annex V to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.

CAS 24634-61-5 / 590-00-1 · EC 246-376-1 / -

EU regulation

Listed in Annex V (ref. 4) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration 0.6% (acid). V/4

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

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