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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Potassium Palm Kernelate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Potassium Palm Kernelate is a cosmetic ingredient that cleans the skin, hair or teeth. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 8 products, most often soaps.

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What does Potassium Palm Kernelate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Potassium Palm Kernelate cleans the skin, hair or teeth and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: cleansing and viscosity controlling.

cleansingviscosity controlling

What other names and numbers does Potassium Palm Kernelate have?

CAS number
70969-43-6
EC number
275-067-4
CosIng reference
79639

Which products contain Potassium Palm Kernelate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Potassium Palm Kernelate in the ingredient lists of 8 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often soaps, hair care and shampoos.

  • Soaps1
  • Hair care1
  • Shampoos1
  • Shaving1

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

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Potassium Palm Kernelate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsSurfactants and cleansers

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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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