Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Disteardimonium Hectorite in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Disteardimonium Hectorite is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 525 products, most often deodorants.
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What does Disteardimonium Hectorite do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Disteardimonium Hectorite makes the product thicker or thinner and keeps the product stable. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling and stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Disteardimonium Hectorite have?
- CAS number
- 97280-96-1
- EC number
- 306-493-1
- CosIng reference
- 33691
Which products contain Disteardimonium Hectorite?
Open Beauty Facts finds Disteardimonium Hectorite in the ingredient lists of 525 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, face makeup and foundations.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 125 · Australia 79 · Germany 71 · United States 67.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Disteardimonium Hectorite 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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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