Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Distarch Phosphate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Distarch Phosphate is a cosmetic ingredient that absorbs water or oil. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 82 products, most often facial creams.
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What does Distarch Phosphate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Distarch Phosphate absorbs water or oil, keeps a powder free-flowing and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: absorbent, anticaking and binding.
What other names and numbers does Distarch Phosphate have?
- CAS number
- 55963-33-2
- CosIng reference
- 75950
Which products contain Distarch Phosphate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Distarch Phosphate in the ingredient lists of 82 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often facial creams, sunscreen and deodorants.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 26 · France 7 · Australia 6 · United States 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Distarch Phosphate 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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