What is Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate?
Surfactant, emulsifying
Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate 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, 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 32 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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Mung Bean Cleansing Oil
Key: Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate (#8 on the ingredient list), Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
1 claim checked
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Pore confidence, mung bean
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