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INCI ingredient

Alpha-glucan Oligosaccharide

Alpha-glucan Oligosaccharide appears on 41 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Alpha-glucan Oligosaccharide appears on 41 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.

It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: cleansing, skin conditioning, smoothing

Products with Alpha-glucan Oligosaccharide

in 41 products

Showing 24 of 41 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • cleansing
  • skin conditioning
  • smoothing
  • cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
  • skin conditioning: Maintaining the skin in good condition.
  • smoothing: Seeking to achieve an even skin surface by decreasing roughness or irregularities.
EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake