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INCI ingredient

Polyaminopropyl Biguanide

Also listed as: Polyaminopropyl Biguanide. (

Polyaminopropyl Biguanide appears on 29 ingredient lists in our database, most often in makeup removers.

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

Polyaminopropyl Biguanide appears on 29 ingredient lists in our database, most often in makeup removers.

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 Polyaminopropyl Biguanide

in 29 products

Showing 24 of 29 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 32289-58-0 [1]/27083-27-8 [2]/28757-47-3 [3]/ 133029-32-0 [4] · EC 608-723-9 [1]/608-042-7 [2]/923-111-4 [3]/- [4]

EU regulation

Listed in Annex V (ref. 28) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration 0.1%.

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

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