Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 144 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: antioxidant.

antioxidant

What other names and numbers does Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate have?

CAS number
66170-10-3
EC number
425-180-1
CosIng reference
58719

Which products contain Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate in the ingredient lists of 144 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, face care and facial creams.

  • Sunscreen19
  • Face care11
  • Facial creams8

Products with it, by country of sale: France 14 · United States 14 · Germany 11 · India 10.

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

  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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