Potassium Sorbate
- Function
- Preservative
- Status
- Permitted preservative
- Maximum
- 0.6%
- In brief
- Potassium sorbate is the potassium salt of sorbic acid, a naturally occurring compound also made synthetically. In cosmetics it is used as a preservative, helping to control the growth of microbes in a product.
- Appears in
- 4 catalogue products
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