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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Polysorbate 60 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Polysorbate 60 is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 262 products, most often body care.

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What does Polysorbate 60 do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Polysorbate 60 lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant and emulsifying.

surfactantemulsifying

What other names and numbers does Polysorbate 60 have?

CAS number
9005-67-8
CosIng reference
79321

Which products contain Polysorbate 60?

Open Beauty Facts finds Polysorbate 60 in the ingredient lists of 262 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, face care and facial creams.

  • Body care12
  • Face care11
  • Facial creams10
  • Hair care9

Products with it, by country of sale: France 61 · United States 51 · Spain 14 · Australia 14.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Polysorbate 60 turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsSurfactants and cleansersEmulsifiers

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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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