Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate is a cosmetic ingredient that binds metals in water so the product stays stable. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 52 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate binds metals in water so the product stays stable. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: chelating.

chelating

What other names and numbers does Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate have?

CAS number
144538-83-0
CosIng reference
60284

Which products contain Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate in the ingredient lists of 52 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, facial creams and day creams.

  • Sunscreen16
  • Facial creams2
  • Day creams2
  • Shaving2

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 21 · France 9 · Norway 6 · Belgium 3.

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