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Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 19 products, most often soaps.

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What does Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier, and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, hair conditioning, viscosity controlling and UV absorber.

surfactanthair conditioningviscosity controllingUV absorber

What other names and numbers does Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate have?

CAS number
27344-41-8
EC number
248-421-0
CosIng reference
75835

Which products contain Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate in the ingredient lists of 19 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often soaps and laundry detergent.

  • Soaps4
  • Laundry detergent1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3 · Australia 3 · Spain 2 · India 2.

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

On these listsSurfactants and cleansers

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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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