Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Potassium Chloride in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Potassium Chloride is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 78 products, most often toothpastes.
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What does Potassium Chloride do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Potassium Chloride makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: viscosity controlling.
What other names and numbers does Potassium Chloride have?
- CAS number
- 7447-40-7
- EC number
- 231-211-8
- CosIng reference
- 36948
Which products contain Potassium Chloride?
Open Beauty Facts finds Potassium Chloride in the ingredient lists of 78 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and face care.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 17 · United States 15 · France 10 · Australia 6.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Potassium Chloride 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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