Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 29 products, most often body washes.

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What does Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and hides an unwanted smell or taste. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming, masking, binding and emulsion stabilising.

viscosity controllingfilm formingmaskingbindingemulsion stabilising

What is Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum?

Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum is a resinous material derived from the ground endosperm of the Guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L., Leguminosae.

CAS number
9000-30-0
EC number
232-536-8
CosIng reference
75398

Which products contain Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum?

Open Beauty Facts finds Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum in the ingredient lists of 29 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body washes, facial creams and body creams.

  • Body washes2
  • Facial creams2
  • Body creams2

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 10 · France 6 · Canada 4 · Germany 4.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum turns up, not how much of the market it is.

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Sources

The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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