Stearyl Alcohol
Stearyl Alcohol carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 44 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Stearyl Alcohol appears in 44 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 44
- catalogued products
- #5,420
- usage rank of 247,206
- 23
- named brands represented
- 26%
- 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.
Stearyl Alcohol sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,420 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,420
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 44 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 26%
- Mean relative depth 26% across 44 parsed labels, slot 7.3 on average. Stearyl Alcohol tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Stearyl Alcohol spans 23 named brands and is led by the Body-lotion group. Start with All Over Ointment; Arm & Hammer Ultra Max; Baby Sunscreen SPF 50 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.
23 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 35 of 36 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.
Function
SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
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 Stearyl Alcohol
Products Containing Stearyl Alcohol
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 44 indexed products containing Stearyl Alcohol:
Stearyl Alcohol vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Stearyl Alcohol: 44 products, mean screening score 98.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Stearyl Alcohol record
44 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Stearyl Alcohol are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Stearyl Alcohol 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
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Stearyl Alcohol
What do the source ratings say about Stearyl Alcohol? ▼
Stearyl Alcohol has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Approved. With only 11.4% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Stearyl Alcohol? ▼
Stearyl Alcohol ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,420 of 247,206), appearing in 44 indexed products led by Body-lotion. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Stearyl Alcohol do in food? ▼
Stearyl Alcohol is recorded as a surface-finishing agent, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Stearyl Alcohol). 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.