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Sorbitan tristearate

SORBITAN TRISTEARATE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Surfactant - Emulsifying, with CAS number 26658-19-5 and EC number 247-891-4. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 2 product labels, reaching position 21 on Lipikar Eczema Soothing Relief Cream. 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 SORBITAN TRISTEARATE

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

Query SORBITAN TRISTEARATE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "SORBITAN TRISTEARATE"]
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.