How we scored it
Where it comes from
Made by esterifying methyl glucoside, from corn glucose, with two oleic acid molecules from vegetable oil, then reacting with a large excess of petrochemical ethylene oxide, 120 mol. The attached formula/IUPAC data appears mismatched to an unrelated nitrogen-containing structure, so the CosIng description was used instead.
In plain English
An emulsifier that blends oil and water in creams and lotions. It starts from corn sugar and vegetable oil, but most of its weight comes from a petroleum-derived ingredient, ethylene oxide, added during manufacturing.
CosIng definition: Poly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), .alpha.-hydro-.omega.-hydroxy-, ether with methyl d-glucopyranoside 2,6-bis[(Z)-9-octadecenoate] (2:1) (120 mol EO average molar ratio)
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Structure
6-[[5-(2-aminoethylcarbamoyl)-2-pyridinyl]methylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid;6-[[4-(aminomethyl)-2-pyridinyl]methylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid;6-[[4-[(2-amino-2-oxoethyl)carbamoyl]-2-pyridinyl]methylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid;6-[[5-(3-aminopropylcarbamoyl)-2-pyridinyl]methylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid;6-[(4-amino-2-pyridinyl)methylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid;6-[(5-amino-2-pyridinyl)methylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid;3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-6-[[5-(prop-2-enoxycarbonylamino)-2-pyridinyl]methylidene]-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid;6-[[4-(hydroxymethyl)-2-pyridinyl]methylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid
References
- 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
- 2PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate. PubChem CID 168009879. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- 3PEG-120 METHYL GLUCOSE DIOLEATE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 4PEG-120 METHYL GLUCOSE DIOLEATE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PEG-120%20METHYL%20GLUCOSE%20DIOLEATE