Stearylalcohol
Also listed as: Stearyl Alcohol
Stearylalcohol appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.
What it triggers
- Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
- FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
- ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
- SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
- SiliconeNonot a silicone
- AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol
What it does
Stearylalcohol appears on 3 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: skin conditioning - emollient, surfactant - emulsifying, emulsion stabilising, surfactant - foam boosting, fragrance, opacifying, refatting, surfactant - cleansing, viscosity controlling
Products with Stearylalcohol
in 3 products
- no photoMixa Lait corps nutritif protecteurMixa · body moisturizer
- no photoDessange Réveil'Color Rose PrécieuseDessange · hair treatment
Nivea crema para manos antiarrugas Q10Nivea · hand cream
Showing 3 of 3 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- skin conditioning - emollient
- surfactant - emulsifying
- emulsion stabilising
- surfactant - foam boosting
- fragrance
- opacifying
- refatting
- surfactant - cleansing
- viscosity controlling
- skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
- surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
- emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
- surfactant - foam boosting: Increasing foaming capacity and/or stabilize foams in general.
CAS 112-92-5 · EC 204-017-6
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.