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INCI ingredient

Sorbitan Tristearate

Sorbitan Tristearate appears on 42 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.

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

Sorbitan Tristearate appears on 42 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.

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 Sorbitan Tristearate

in 42 products

Showing 24 of 42 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 26658-19-5 · EC 247-891-4

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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