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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Ceteareth-6 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Ceteareth-6 is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 9 products, most often body care.

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What does Ceteareth-6 do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Ceteareth-6 lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant and emulsifying.

surfactantemulsifying

What other names and numbers does Ceteareth-6 have?

CAS number
68439-49-6
CosIng reference
75124

Which products contain Ceteareth-6?

Open Beauty Facts finds Ceteareth-6 in the ingredient lists of 9 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, bath and shower and shower gels.

  • Body care2
  • Bath and shower1
  • Shower gels1
  • Hand creams1
  • Body creams1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 5 · Switzerland 1 · United States 1 · Albania 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Ceteareth-6 turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsSurfactants and cleansersEmulsifiers

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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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