Hydroxyethyl Urea
Hydroxyethyl Urea appears in 7 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
Hydroxyethyl Urea appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 23%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
57.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Hydroxyethyl Urea as the trigger. Open records such as Crisp Morning Air Anti-Bacterial Hand Gel; Diabetics' Dry Skin Relief Moisturizing Cream; First Spray Serum and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 77.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 23% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 6 of 6 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Hydroxyethyl Urea - usage rank #19,546
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 23%
- Mean relative depth 23% across 7 parsed labels, slot 9.9 on average. Hydroxyethyl Urea tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 7 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 Hydroxyethyl Urea
Products Containing Hydroxyethyl Urea
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Hydroxyethyl Urea:
Hydroxyethyl Urea vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Hydroxyethyl Urea: 7 listings averaging 77.9/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Hydroxyethyl Urea evidence
Start from Hydroxyethyl Urea's 7 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Hydroxyethyl Urea before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Hydroxyethyl Urea — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Hydroxyethyl Urea sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Hydroxyethyl Urea is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hydroxyethyl Urea? ▼
Hydroxyethyl Urea ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Body-lotion. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Hydroxyethyl Urea so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Hydroxyethyl Urea appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydroxyethyl Urea). 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.