Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Polyglycerin-10 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Polyglycerin-10 is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 19 products, most often bath and shower.
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What does Polyglycerin-10 do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Polyglycerin-10 holds water in the skin or the product and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and skin conditioning.
What other names and numbers does Polyglycerin-10 have?
- CAS number
- 9041-07-0
- EC number
- 232-921-0
- CosIng reference
- 58366
Which products contain Polyglycerin-10?
Open Beauty Facts finds Polyglycerin-10 in the ingredient lists of 19 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often bath and shower, shower gels and deodorants.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 6 · Germany 3 · Norway 3 · Morocco 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Polyglycerin-10 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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