What is Glycol Distearate?
Skin conditioning, emollient
Glycol Distearate is an emollient that softens the skin surface.
This ingredient is listed in CosIng, the EU's cosmetic ingredient database. CosIng lists what it's used for as: Skin conditioning, emollient, Surfactant, emulsifying, Opacifying, Skin conditioning, Viscosity controlling.
CosIng function classes are the EU's standard list of the jobs an ingredient does inside a product, such as moisturizing, emulsifying, or preserving.
Anything to watch out for?
Some products' ingredient lists mark this ingredient as below. If a mark's reason fits your skin, it is the ingredient to weigh in those products.
- This is a fungal-acne trigger, one of the ingredients people with fungal acne avoid.
- Marked this way on 24 products.
- This ingredient is on pore-clogging ingredient lists, which matters most for skin that breaks out easily.
- Marked this way on 6 products.
Each mark comes from matching the product's full ingredient list against lists for fragrance, labeled fragrance allergens, drying alcohols, essential oils, fungal acne, pore clogging, and pregnancy caution.
Which products feature it?
One of the 2320 products we've checked features this as a key ingredient.
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Key: Glycol Distearate (#9 on the ingredient list), Myristic Acid, Stearic Acid
5 claims, summarized
- Don't count on:
- less visible pores · firmer skin
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