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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan is a cosmetic ingredient that cleans the skin, hair or teeth. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 7 products, most often body care.

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What does Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan cleans the skin, hair or teeth, makes the product thicker or thinner and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: cleansing, viscosity controlling and binding.

cleansingviscosity controllingbinding

What other names and numbers does Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan have?

CAS number
9050-93-5
CosIng reference
84994

Which products contain Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan in the ingredient lists of 7 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care and hand creams.

  • Body care3
  • Hand creams3

Products with it, by country of sale: France 5 · Singapore 1 · Germany 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsSurfactants and cleansers

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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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