Ethylhexylglycerin
Ethylhexylglycerin appears in 90 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
Ethylhexylglycerin appears in 90 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.
- 90
- catalogued products
- #3,385
- usage rank of 247,206
- 49
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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.
Ethylhexylglycerin sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,385 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,385
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 26 others that also appear in exactly 90 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 90 products listing it (mean slot 21.9). Ethylhexylglycerin 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ethylhexylglycerin spans 49 named brands and is led by the Sunscreen group. Start with 5-in-1 Wonder Spray; 50 Sensitive; Aloe Vera Gel when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
49 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 78 of 79 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ethylhexylglycerin
Across the 90 products on this site that list Ethylhexylglycerin, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 3.7x more often with Ethylhexylglycerin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ethylhexylglycerin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 7 | 7.8% | 2.1% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 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 Ethylhexylglycerin
Products Containing Ethylhexylglycerin
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 90 indexed products containing Ethylhexylglycerin:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added For Freshness”)
Ethylhexylglycerin sits among other busy catalog rows (90 products, mean score 94.2/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Added For Freshness · Organic Agave Fiber · B. Bifidum. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Ethylhexylglycerin evidence
Use the 90-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Ethylhexylglycerin and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Ethylhexylglycerin with a peer such as “Added For Freshness” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ethylhexylglycerin — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ethylhexylglycerin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ethylhexylglycerin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,385 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ethylhexylglycerin? ▼
Ethylhexylglycerin ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,385 of 247,206), appearing in 90 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ethylhexylglycerin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ethylhexylglycerin appears in 90 products (#3,385 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ethylhexylglycerin). 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.