# Sodium ethylparaben

URL: https://app.greenveil.ai/ingredients/ingredient_cas_99_96_7
Categories: beauty, pharma
Functions: preservative, Preservative

> Sodium ethylparaben is used as preservative / preservative. Greenveil chemical-concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern.. Assessed from 7 sources.

## Safety assessment

- Chemical concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern.
- Confidence: 4
- Rationale: 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid and its Methyl- and Ethyl-esters, and their salts is listed in Annex V of the EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 (preservatives allowed in cosmetic products).

_Assessed by Greenveil._