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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Pullulan in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Pullulan is a cosmetic ingredient that leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 30 products, most often facial creams.

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What does Pullulan do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Pullulan leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: film forming and binding.

film formingbinding

What is Pullulan?

Pullulan is a polysaccharide produced from starch by cultivating the yeast, Aureobasidium pullulans.

CAS number
9057-02-7
EC number
232-945-1
CosIng reference
58766

Which products contain Pullulan?

Open Beauty Facts finds Pullulan in the ingredient lists of 30 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often facial creams, sunscreen and makeup.

  • Facial creams3
  • Sunscreen3
  • Makeup2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 7 · Turkey 6 · United States 4 · Türkiye 4.

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