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INCI ingredient

Sodium Starch Octenyl Succinate

Also listed as: Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate

Sodium Starch Octenyl Succinate appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in antiperspirants.

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 Starch Octenyl Succinate appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in antiperspirants.

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: absorbent, emulsion stabilising, viscosity controlling

Products with Sodium Starch Octenyl Succinate

in 2 products

Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • absorbent
  • emulsion stabilising
  • viscosity controlling
  • absorbent: Taking up water- and/or oil-soluble (dissolved or finely dispersed) substances.
  • emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 66829-29-6 / 52906-93-1 / 70714-61-3

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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