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Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 165 products, most often face makeup.

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What does Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, cleans the skin, hair or teeth, and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, cleansing, skin conditioning and hair conditioning.

surfactantcleansingskin conditioninghair conditioning

What other names and numbers does Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate have?

CAS number
38079-62-8
EC number
253-773-3
CosIng reference
33659

Which products contain Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate in the ingredient lists of 165 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup, foundations and concealers.

  • Face makeup61
  • Foundations50
  • Concealers25
  • Makeup15

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 52 · Norway 38 · Netherlands 22 · Mexico 20.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate 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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