Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
PEG-40 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
PEG-40 is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 39 products, most often bath and shower.
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What does PEG-40 do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, PEG-40 holds water in the skin or the product and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and solvent.
What other names and numbers does PEG-40 have?
- CAS number
- 25322-68-3
- CosIng reference
- 78449
Which products contain PEG-40?
Open Beauty Facts finds PEG-40 in the ingredient lists of 39 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often bath and shower, shower gels and roll-on deodorants.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 14 · Spain 7 · Germany 4 · Argentina 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where PEG-40 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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