Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Potassium Cetyl Phosphate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Potassium Cetyl Phosphate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 312 products, most often sunscreen.
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What does Potassium Cetyl Phosphate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate 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.
What other names and numbers does Potassium Cetyl Phosphate have?
- CAS number
- 84861-79-0, 19035-79-1
- EC number
- 284-374-2, 242-768-1
- CosIng reference
- 79512
Which products contain Potassium Cetyl Phosphate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Potassium Cetyl Phosphate in the ingredient lists of 312 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen and body care.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 78 · Germany 54 · Spain 23 · Netherlands 16.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Potassium Cetyl Phosphate 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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