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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Glyceryl Oleate Citrate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Glyceryl Oleate Citrate 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 sunscreen.

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What does Glyceryl Oleate Citrate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Oleate Citrate 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 is Glyceryl Oleate Citrate?

Glyceryl Oleate Citrate is the reaction product of glyceryl oleate and citric acid.

CosIng reference
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Which products contain Glyceryl Oleate Citrate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Oleate Citrate in the ingredient lists of 19 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, face care and facial creams.

  • Sunscreen1
  • Face care1
  • Facial creams1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 14 · United States 1 · Norway 1 · United Kingdom 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Glyceryl Oleate Citrate 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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