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PEG-75 Lanolin
PEG-75 Lanolin
A water-mixing form of lanolin used to cleanse.
What it does
It’s lanolin, the wax from sheep’s wool, joined to polyethylene glycol (PEG) so it mixes with water.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2018) judged 39 polyether lanolins safe as used, PEG-75 lanolin among them. These are lanolin joined to polyethylene glycol, and mostly condition hair and skin or help oil and water mix; PEG-75 lanolin is listed as a cleansing agent. In many tests on skin and eyes they found little or no irritation or allergy.Becker 2018 · International Journal of Toxicology ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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