Chlorhexidine
Chlorhexidine appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database.
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
Chlorhexidine appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database.
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: antimicrobial, oral care, preservative
Products with Chlorhexidine
in 2 products
Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
Functions listed by CosIng
- antimicrobial
- oral care
- preservative
- antimicrobial: Preventing and/or slowing down microbial growth.
- oral care: Providing cosmetic effects to the oral cavity, e.g. cleansing, deodorising, protecting.
- preservative: Exclusively or mainly intended to inhibit the development of micro-organisms in the cosmetic product. All authorised preservatives are substances in the positive list of Annex V to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.
CAS 55-56-1 · EC 200-238-7
EU regulation
Listed in Annex V (ref. 42) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration 0.3% (as chlorhexidine). V/42
Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.
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