Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Glyceryl Distearate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Glyceryl Distearate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 10 products, most often body care.
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What does Glyceryl Distearate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Distearate softens and smooths the skin, and reduces static, so hair stays flat. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and antistatic.
What other names and numbers does Glyceryl Distearate have?
- CAS number
- 1323-83-7
- EC number
- 215-359-0
- CosIng reference
- 34067
Which products contain Glyceryl Distearate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Distearate in the ingredient lists of 10 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care and hand creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: Spain 2 · United States 2 · Chile 2 · Argentina 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Glyceryl Distearate 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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