Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 11 products, most often skincare.
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What does Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, cleans the skin, hair or teeth, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, cleansing, emulsifying, moisturising, skin conditioning, masking, antidandruff and foaming.
What is Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract?
Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract is an extract of the bark of the Panama Bark, Quillaja saponaria, Rosaceae.
- CAS number
- 68990-67-0
- EC number
- 273-620-4
- CosIng reference
- 59042
Which products contain Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract?
Open Beauty Facts finds Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract in the ingredient lists of 11 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often skincare and toothpastes.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 6 · Amerique 1 · Spain 1 · Germany 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract 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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