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INCI ingredient

DMDM Hydantoin

DMDM Hydantoin appears on 208 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shampoos.

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

DMDM Hydantoin appears on 208 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shampoos.

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: preservative

Products with DMDM Hydantoin

in 208 products

Showing 24 of 208 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • preservative
  • 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 6440-58-0 · EC 229-222-8

EU regulation

Listed in Annex V (ref. 33) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration 0.6%. V/33

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

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