HOME / SURFACTANTS, CLEANSING & EMULSIFYING AGENTS / PEG-8 STEARATE

Poly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), .alpha.-(1-oxooctadecyl)-.omega.-hydroxy- (8 mol EO average molar ratio)

PEG-8 STEARATE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Surfactant - Emulsifying, Humectant, Surfactant - Cleansing, with CAS number 9004-99-3. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 4 on Travel Size Enzyme Cleansing Gel. Fulton (1989) grades it 3 on the 0–5 comedogenicity scale; that grade is transcribed as-is and is the only rating source used. INCIDB's rule-derived heuristic flags it as a possible Malassezia (fungal-acne) trigger. That is a rule, not a measurement — treat it as a filter rather than a finding.

Sample products containing PEG-8 STEARATE

Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.

Query PEG-8 STEARATE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "PEG-8 STEARATE"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])

The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.