Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Steareth-200 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Steareth-200 is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 12 products, most often hair color kits.
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What does Steareth-200 do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Steareth-200 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 is Steareth-200?
Steareth-200 is the polyethylene glycol ether of Stearyl Alcohol.
- CosIng reference
- 85815
Which products contain Steareth-200?
Open Beauty Facts finds Steareth-200 in the ingredient lists of 12 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair color kits and permanent hair dyes.
Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 9 · Germany 2 · United States 1 · Costa Rica 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Steareth-200 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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