Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps a powder free-flowing. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 205 products, most often toothpastes.
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What does Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate keeps a powder free-flowing, keeps the product's acidity steady and binds metals in water so the product stays stable. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: anticaking, buffering, chelating and oral care.
What other names and numbers does Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate have?
- CAS number
- 7722-88-5
- EC number
- 231-767-1
- CosIng reference
- 38571
Which products contain Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate in the ingredient lists of 205 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and whitening toothpastes.
Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 43 · France 32 · Australia 28 · United States 24.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate 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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