Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 303 products, most often toothpastes.

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What does Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate holds water in the skin or the product. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: humectant.

humectant

What other names and numbers does Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate have?

CAS number
68425-17-2
EC number
270-337-8
CosIng reference
76651

Which products contain Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate in the ingredient lists of 303 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and mouthwash.

  • Toothpastes89
  • Mouthwash15

Products with it, by country of sale: France 195 · Germany 20 · Italy 16 · Switzerland 13.

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