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INCI ingredient

Polyquaternium-7

Also listed as: Polyquaternium-7/Poliquatérnio-7

A conditioning polymer that leaves hair and skin feeling smooth after rinsing.

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

Polyquaternium-7 is a positively charged polymer. It clings to hair and skin while a shampoo or shower gel is rinsed away, so what is left feels softer and combs more easily. CosIng lists it as antistatic and film forming.

It is synthetic and affects none of the six checks.

Functions: antistatic, film forming

Products with Polyquaternium-7

in 571 products

Showing 24 of 571 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antistatic
  • film forming
  • antistatic: Preventing and/or reducing static electricity by neutralising electrical charge on surfaces.
  • film forming: Producing (upon application) a continuous film on the skin, hair or nails.

CAS 26590-05-6

EU regulation

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.

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