Calcium Starch Octenylsuccinate
Calcium Starch Octenylsuccinate appears on 5 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
What it triggers
- Vegan originYesno animal source
- FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
- ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
- SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
- SiliconeNonot a silicone
- AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol
What it does
Calcium Starch Octenylsuccinate appears on 5 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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: absorbent, surfactant - emulsifying, emulsion stabilising, viscosity controlling
Products with Calcium Starch Octenylsuccinate
in 5 products
La Rosée Stick solaire à l'huile d'abricot BIOLa Rosée · sunscreen
Horace DéodorantHorace · deodorant
Hey Humans Natural Deodorant Cedarwood SageHey Humans · deodorant- no photoHey Humans Cedar wood sageHey Humans · deodorant
Lol Fard à paupièreLol · eye makeup
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In the EU ingredient database
- absorbent
- surfactant - emulsifying
- emulsion stabilising
- viscosity controlling
- absorbent: Taking up water- and/or oil-soluble (dissolved or finely dispersed) substances.
- surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
- emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
- viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
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.