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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 17 products, most often cleansing balm.

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What does PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate softens and smooths the skin, and keeps oil and water mixed. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient and emulsifying.

emollientemulsifying

What other names and numbers does PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate have?

CosIng reference
57721

Which products contain PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate?

Open Beauty Facts finds PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate in the ingredient lists of 17 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often cleansing balm and sunscreen.

  • Cleansing balm1
  • Sunscreen1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 10 · Germany 4 · Netherlands 1 · Romania 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsEmollientsEmulsifiers

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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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