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INCI ingredient

Zinc Stearate

Zinc Stearate appears on 58 ingredient lists in our database, most often in face makeups.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureplant or 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

Zinc Stearate appears on 58 ingredient lists in our database, most often in face makeups.

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: anticaking, colorant, viscosity controlling, slip modifier

Products with Zinc Stearate

in 58 products

Showing 24 of 58 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • anticaking
  • colorant
  • viscosity controlling
  • slip modifier
  • anticaking: Preventing agglomeration of particulate solids into lumps or hard masses (cohesive cake), thus allowing free flow of particles.
  • colorant: Exclusively or mainly intended to colour the cosmetic product, the body as a whole or certain parts thereof, by absorption or reflection of visible light; (precursors of oxidative hair colorants shall be deemed colorants). All authorised colorants are substances in the positive list of Annex IV to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
  • slip modifier: Enhancing the flow properties of other ingredients without reacting chemically with them.

CAS 557-05-1 · EC 209-151-9

EU regulation

Listed in Annex IV (ref. 150) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. IV/150

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

Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake