Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Cetearyl Glucoside in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Cetearyl Glucoside is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 196 products, most often body care.
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What does Cetearyl Glucoside do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Cetearyl Glucoside 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.
What other names and numbers does Cetearyl Glucoside have?
- CAS number
- 246159-33-1
- CosIng reference
- 75137
Which products contain Cetearyl Glucoside?
Open Beauty Facts finds Cetearyl Glucoside in the ingredient lists of 196 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, facial creams and body creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 63 · United States 24 · Australia 22 · Germany 19.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cetearyl Glucoside turns up, not how much of the market it is.
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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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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