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INCI ingredient

Sodium Hexametaphosphate

Sodium Hexametaphosphate appears on 32 ingredient lists in our database.

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

Sodium Hexametaphosphate appears on 32 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: anticorrosive, chelating, fragrance

Products with Sodium Hexametaphosphate

in 32 products

Showing 24 of 32 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • anticorrosive
  • chelating
  • fragrance
  • anticorrosive: Preventing and or inhibiting the corrosion of the packaging material.
  • chelating: Forming complexes with metal ions which could affect the stability and/or appearance of cosmetics.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.

CAS 10124-56-8 / 10361-03-2 / 68915-31-1 · EC 233-343-1 / 272-808-3

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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