What is Potassium Myristate?
Surfactant, emulsifying
Potassium Myristate 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, Surfactant, cleansing.
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 ingredient is on pore-clogging ingredient lists, which matters most for skin that breaks out easily.
- Marked this way on 2 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: Potassium Myristate (#3 on the ingredient list), Papain, Bromelain
2 claims, summarized
- Don't count on:
- a smoother skin texture
See each claim
claims, checked
Daily flake care with chewy enzyme foam
overstatedHigh Amino All Enzyme Powder Wash
overstated
