SORBITOL
Sorbitol is the English name recorded for SORBITOL. The entry describes it as a hexahydric alcohol and lists D-Glucitol as a chemical designation, two references that make the ingredient's identity more precise than the INCI name alone.
SORBITOL: what it is
Sorbitol is the English name recorded for SORBITOL. The entry describes it as a hexahydric alcohol and lists D-Glucitol as a chemical designation, two references that make the ingredient's identity more precise than the INCI name alone.
EC number 200-061-5 accompanies the entry, while CAS values appear in more than one reference. The identification should therefore preserve the set provided rather than reduce it to one absolute number.
SORBITOL: what it does in cosmetics
SORBITOL is classified as HUMECTANT, FRAGRANCE, SKIN CONDITIONING and PERFUMING. The entry brings together a humectant function, skin-conditioning categories and functions related to fragrance and perfuming.
Those classifications describe technical roles assigned to the ingredient within a cosmetic composition. They do not establish hydration, intensity, amount used, combination with other components or the final result of a product.
SORBITOL: conditions and care
This entry does not provide a cosmetic restriction, maximum concentration, condition of use or other regulation for SORBITOL. There is also no accompanying text from which a numerical limit or particular condition of use could be established.
The absence of those fields refers only to the information available in this record. It is not a safety assessment and does not confirm that no care or limits exist outside the entry shown.
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