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INCI ingredient

Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate

Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate appears on 61 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 Starch Octenylsuccinate appears on 61 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: absorbent, emulsion stabilising, viscosity controlling

Products with Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate

in 61 products

Showing 24 of 61 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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