Canonical INCI monograph
POLYHYDROXYSTEARIC ACID
Not on the EU Annex III list
12-Hydroxyoctadecanoic acid, homopolymer
POLYHYDROXYSTEARIC ACID is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Surfactant - Emulsifying, with CAS number 27924-99-8 / 58128-22-6. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 14 on Maybelline Brow Extension Medium Brown 4.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
27924-99-8 / 58128-22-6
COSING FUNCTIONS
Surfactant - Emulsifying
Sample products containing POLYHYDROXYSTEARIC ACID
Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.
Query POLYHYDROXYSTEARIC ACID in the full snapshot
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "POLYHYDROXYSTEARIC ACID"]
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.