Cetearyl Glucoside
Cetearyl Glucoside appears in 8 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Cetearyl Glucoside appears in 8 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 8
- catalogued products
- #17,814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 50%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Cetearyl Glucoside: top-decile catalog footprint (#17,814 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #17,814
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 8 products listing it (mean slot 16.6). Cetearyl Glucoside usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cetearyl Glucoside spans 5 named brands and is led by the Sunscreen group. Start with Fresh Falls; Golden Hour Body Butter; Magnesium Oil when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 8 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 8 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cetearyl Glucoside
Products Containing Cetearyl Glucoside
8 busy labels from the 8 indexed products that list Cetearyl Glucoside:
Cetearyl Glucoside vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Cetearyl Glucoside: 8 listings averaging 98.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Cetearyl Glucoside page
Start from Cetearyl Glucoside's 8 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cetearyl Glucoside to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cetearyl Glucoside
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cetearyl Glucoside? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cetearyl Glucoside, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#17,814 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cetearyl Glucoside? ▼
Cetearyl Glucoside ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cetearyl Glucoside so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cetearyl Glucoside appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cetearyl Glucoside). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.