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INCI ingredient

Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate

Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate appears on 36 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

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 Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate appears on 36 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

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: abrasive, bulking, viscosity controlling

Products with Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate

in 36 products

Showing 24 of 36 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • abrasive
  • bulking
  • viscosity controlling
  • abrasive: Removing unwanted tissue or foreign materials from various body surfaces, including mechanical tooth cleaning and/or gloss improvement.
  • bulking: Non-reactive (chemically inert), solid ingredients that dilute other solids and/or increase the volume of cosmetic products.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 221355-22-2

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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