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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Stearate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Stearate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 195 products, most often deodorants.

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What does Sodium Stearate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Stearate 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 and viscosity controlling.

surfactantcleansingemulsifyingviscosity controlling

What other names and numbers does Sodium Stearate have?

CAS number
822-16-2
EC number
212-490-5
CosIng reference
38064

Which products contain Sodium Stearate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Stearate in the ingredient lists of 195 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, soaps and deodorant sticks.

  • Deodorants30
  • Soaps21
  • Deodorant sticks15

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 53 · France 40 · Germany 20 · Canada 20.

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