Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 102 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides 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, skin conditioning and viscosity controlling.

emollientemulsifyingskin conditioningviscosity controlling

What other names and numbers does Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides have?

CAS number
91744-66-0
EC number
294-631-0
CosIng reference
34370

Which products contain Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides?

Open Beauty Facts finds Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides in the ingredient lists of 102 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, body care and eye makeup.

  • Sunscreen16
  • Body care10
  • Eye makeup4
  • Body milks4
  • Hand creams4

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 40 · France 26 · Spain 8 · Italy 7.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides 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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