Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Potassium Thiocyanate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Potassium Thiocyanate is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the product stable. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 24 products, most often toothpastes.

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What does Potassium Thiocyanate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Potassium Thiocyanate keeps the product stable. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: stabilising.

stabilising

What other names and numbers does Potassium Thiocyanate have?

CAS number
333-20-0
EC number
206-370-1
CosIng reference
37034

Which products contain Potassium Thiocyanate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Potassium Thiocyanate in the ingredient lists of 24 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and body care.

  • Toothpastes6
  • Body care1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 13 · Norway 5 · Netherlands 3 · Turkey 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Potassium Thiocyanate 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’.

  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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