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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Glycol Stearate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Glycol Stearate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 177 products, most often body care.

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What does Glycol Stearate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Glycol Stearate softens and smooths the skin, 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: emollient, surfactant, emulsifying and opacifying.

emollientsurfactantemulsifyingopacifying

What other names and numbers does Glycol Stearate have?

CAS number
111-60-4
EC number
203-886-9
CosIng reference
34143

Which products contain Glycol Stearate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Glycol Stearate in the ingredient lists of 177 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, shampoos and bath and shower.

  • Body care12
  • Shampoos12
  • Bath and shower12

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 42 · France 35 · Netherlands 16 · Australia 16.

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

On these listsSurfactants and cleansersEmollientsEmulsifiers

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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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