Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 15 products, most often shampoos.
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What does PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate softens and smooths the skin, cleans the skin, hair or teeth, and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, cleansing and viscosity controlling.
What other names and numbers does PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate have?
- CosIng reference
- 57515
Which products contain PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate?
Open Beauty Facts finds PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate in the ingredient lists of 15 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, bath and shower and shower gels.
Products with it, by country of sale: Italy 4 · France 3 · Spain 2 · Bolivia 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate 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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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