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INCI ingredient

Chlorhexidine Dihydrochloride

Chlorhexidine Dihydrochloride appears on 30 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair conditioners.

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 Dihydrochloride appears on 30 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair conditioners.

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 Dihydrochloride

in 30 products

Showing 24 of 30 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 3697-42-5 · EC 223-026-6

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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