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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Acetylated Glycol Stearate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Acetylated Glycol Stearate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 35 products, most often concealers.

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What does Acetylated Glycol Stearate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Acetylated Glycol Stearate softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning and emulsion stabilising.

emollientskin conditioningemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does Acetylated Glycol Stearate have?

CAS number
22613-51-0
EC number
245-122-7
CosIng reference
73995

Which products contain Acetylated Glycol Stearate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Acetylated Glycol Stearate in the ingredient lists of 35 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often concealers and serums.

  • Concealers25
  • Serums1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 25 · Norway 4 · France 3 · Morocco 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Acetylated Glycol Stearate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsEmollients

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Sources

The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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