What is Sorbitan Oleate?
Surfactant, emulsifying
Sorbitan Oleate 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 35 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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Grantte Daily Cleansing Oil
Key: Sorbitan Oleate (#3 on the ingredient list), Zea Mays (Corn) Germ Oil, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Seed Oil
3 claims, summarized
- Don't count on:
- better hydration
See each claim
claims, checked
Hwahae NO.1 blackhead melting oil
overstatedLeaving moisture and lifting out only the skin impurities-
overstatedBEST! Grante Daily Cleansing
nothing specific to check