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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

PEG-180m in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

PEG-180m is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 10 products, most often hair care.

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What does PEG-180m do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, PEG-180m 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-180m have?

CAS number
25322-68-3
CosIng reference
57655

Which products contain PEG-180m?

Open Beauty Facts finds PEG-180m in the ingredient lists of 10 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care and hair gels.

  • Hair care1
  • Hair gels1

Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 5 · Norway 3 · Germany 3 · France 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where PEG-180m 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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