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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

C20-40 Pareth-10 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

C20-40 Pareth-10 is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 5 products.

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What does C20-40 Pareth-10 do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, C20-40 Pareth-10 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.

surfactantemulsifying

What other names and numbers does C20-40 Pareth-10 have?

CAS number
246538-83-0
CosIng reference
74691

Which products contain C20-40 Pareth-10?

Open Beauty Facts finds C20-40 Pareth-10 in the ingredient lists of 5 of the 22,021 products it has a list for.

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2 · France 1 · Spain 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where C20-40 Pareth-10 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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