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What is Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate?

Surfactant, emulsifying

Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate is an emulsifier that mixes oil and water into one texture.

This ingredient is listed in CosIng, the EU's cosmetic ingredient database. CosIng lists what it's used for as: Surfactant, emulsifying.

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 23 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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  • HANSKIN

    Cleansing Oil & Blackhead [PHA]

    Key: Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate (#7 on the ingredient list), Gluconolactone, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride

    6 claims, summarized
    Only partly backed:
    less visible pores
    Don't count on:
    a smoother skin texture
    See each claim

    claims, checked

    • *Because it is manufactured with a blend of plant derived oil ingredients, fine sediment may occur, but there is no problem with using the product, so please shake it before usebacked by evidence
    • HANSKIN has launched three ‘Cleansing Oil & Blackhead’ products that remove makeup perfectly and at the same time also allow blackhead management.partly backed
    • This newly presented product is released with an oil formula optimised for each of the dry, oily and combination, and sensitive skin types, and consists of three products in total so that it can be chosen and used according to skin condition.partly backed
    • As a product that makes everyday cleansing and blackhead care possible at the same time with this one product, it leaves the ingredients useful to the skin and cleanly manages makeup residue, impurities, old flakes and blackheads.overstated
    • ‘Cleansing Oil & Blackhead PHA’ for sensitive skin cares for delicate and sensitive skin with low irritation, using a high viscosity oil that reduces the surface making direct contact with the skin.overstated
    • The PHA ingredient has a large molecular structure, so it absorbs slowly into the skin and softly melts away sebum and flakes on sensitive skin.overstated