Is POLYSORBATE 20 Safe? — Ingredient Safety Profile · Greenveil
beauty / cleaning / food / industrial / pharma
POLYSORBATE 20
EPA CPDat observed this chemical in 5362 composition records across product categories including Construction and building materials, Personal care, Laboratory supplies.
Research docs0Claims0Sources43Functionanti-fogging agents • Anti-static agentIdentifierDTXSID3031949
Concern score
5/100Low concern based on regulatory listings.
Well researched
How we scored this
The concern value reflects this ingredient's chemical identity — its hazard profile from the published classifications and regulatory status below — not the safety of a product it appears in. A score near 40 is the baseline for ingredients with no specific signal (water scores 40 by design), so a mid-range value is not a safety verdict.
Concern score 5/100 (low) · high confidence.
Where it appears
Prevalence of POLYSORBATE 20 in our catalog (epa_cpdat).
Products
5,362
Brands
6
Construction and building materialsPersonal careLaboratory suppliesSpecialty occupational productsCleaning products and household careFood and drug
Typical roles
anti-fogging agentsAnti-static agentDispersing agentEmulsifierFlavouring and nutrient
Catalog
Found in these products
118 products
Co-occurrence
Often appears with
Ingredients that frequently appear alongside POLYSORBATE 20 in the catalog.
Context-specific fit derived from published classifications and the current ingredient evidence profile.
Food use
Food-use source coverage is present in the current record.
Good fit
The ingredient appears in food-oriented source coverage or allowed-use references, which makes food use easier to support than a context with no domain signal at all.
Fragrance avoidance
Not a strong fit for fragrance avoidance because it carries Fragrance.
Avoid
Allergen profile
Canonical allergen markers detected on this ingredient. Each row is derived from the ingredient’s name or synonyms matching a known allergen class — useful when scanning a label for a specific allergy context.
SoyContains · Oral (ingested)
Source: chemindex_name_match
Linked research
Primary documents currently linked to this ingredient record.
No linked research documents are attached to this ingredient yet.
Extracted claims
Structured claim signals pulled from linked ingredient research.
No extracted claims are attached to this ingredient yet.
Regulatory status
Published jurisdiction-level classifications and regulatory designations for this ingredient.
US
EPA
commercial use observed
EPA CPDat observed this chemical in 5362 composition records across product categories including Construction and building materials, Personal care, Laboratory supplies. EPA CPDat classifies this chemical for functional uses including Emulsifier, Surfactant (surface active agent), Fragrance.
