Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Pentaerythrityl Distearate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Pentaerythrityl Distearate is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps oil and water mixed. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 40 products, most often body care.

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What does Pentaerythrityl Distearate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Pentaerythrityl Distearate keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: emulsifying.

emulsifying

What other names and numbers does Pentaerythrityl Distearate have?

CAS number
13081-97-5
EC number
235-991-0
CosIng reference
36458

Which products contain Pentaerythrityl Distearate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Pentaerythrityl Distearate in the ingredient lists of 40 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, hand creams and body creams.

  • Body care7
  • Hand creams6
  • Body creams3
  • Shaving2

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 15 · France 7 · Spain 5 · Morocco 3.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Pentaerythrityl Distearate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsEmulsifiers

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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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