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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Glyceryl Stearate Citrate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 414 products, most often body care.

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What does Glyceryl Stearate Citrate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate softens and smooths the skin, keeps oil and water mixed, and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, emulsifying and skin conditioning.

emollientemulsifyingskin conditioning

What other names and numbers does Glyceryl Stearate Citrate have?

CAS number
55840-13-6, 86418-55-5
EC number
259-855-5
CosIng reference
76253

Which products contain Glyceryl Stearate Citrate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Stearate Citrate in the ingredient lists of 414 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, hand creams and facial creams.

  • Body care47
  • Hand creams27
  • Facial creams22
  • Face care20

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 138 · France 130 · Spain 26 · United States 14.

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

On these listsEmollientsEmulsifiers

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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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