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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

PEG-115m in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

PEG-115m is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 58 products, most often razors.

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What does PEG-115m do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, PEG-115m makes the product thicker or thinner, holds a powder or a pressed product together and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, binding and emulsion stabilising.

viscosity controllingbindingemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does PEG-115m have?

CAS number
25322-68-3
CosIng reference
77462

Which products contain PEG-115m?

Open Beauty Facts finds PEG-115m in the ingredient lists of 58 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often razors and razor blades.

  • Razors13
  • Razor blades8

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 31 · France 9 · Australia 9 · Norway 5.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where PEG-115m 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’.

  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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