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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Gellan Gum in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Gellan Gum is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 64 products, most often body care.

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What does Gellan Gum do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Gellan Gum makes the product thicker or thinner and leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling and film forming.

viscosity controllingfilm forming

What other names and numbers does Gellan Gum have?

CAS number
71010-52-1
EC number
275-117-5
CosIng reference
33988

Which products contain Gellan Gum?

Open Beauty Facts finds Gellan Gum in the ingredient lists of 64 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, hand creams and mouthwash.

  • Body care7
  • Hand creams5
  • Mouthwash3

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 32 · France 10 · Morocco 6 · Australia 6.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Gellan 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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