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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Beta-Sitosterol in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Beta-Sitosterol is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the skin in good condition. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 54 products, most often facial creams.

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What does Beta-Sitosterol do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Beta-Sitosterol keeps the skin in good condition, hides an unwanted smell or taste and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: skin conditioning, masking, emulsion stabilising and stabilising.

skin conditioningmaskingemulsion stabilisingstabilising

What other names and numbers does Beta-Sitosterol have?

CAS number
83-46-5
EC number
201-480-6
CosIng reference
74521

Which products contain Beta-Sitosterol?

Open Beauty Facts finds Beta-Sitosterol in the ingredient lists of 54 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often facial creams, body care and face care.

  • Facial creams5
  • Body care4
  • Face care4

Products with it, by country of sale: France 15 · United States 10 · Spain 7 · Italy 6.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Beta-Sitosterol 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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