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INCI ingredient

Sodium Hyaluronate

Also listed as: Hyaluronic Acid

The salt form of hyaluronic acid, a humectant that holds many times its weight in water.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureplant or 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 hyaluronate is smaller and more stable than hyaluronic acid, so most serums use this form. Today it is almost always made by fermentation.

Because older production methods used animal tissue and labels do not state the source, it makes the vegan check say not sure unless the brand claims vegan.

Functions: humectant

Products with Sodium Hyaluronate

in 745 products

Showing 24 of 745 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • humectant
  • skin conditioning
  • humectant: Retaining and/or preserving the moisture in a product during use.
  • skin conditioning: Maintaining the skin in good condition.

CAS 9067-32-7

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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