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HUMECTANT

Retaining and/or preserving the moisture in a product during use.

Definition provenance: European Commission CosIng ingredient-function terminology.

2189 ingredients in the EU CosIng inventory carry the HUMECTANT function designation.

Ingredients with the HUMECTANT function

Sodium Ascorbyl Maltoside is the sodium salt of the product obtained by the condensation of Ascorbic Acid with Maltose.

Sodium Butyroyl Hyaluronate is the sodium salt of the product obtained by the reaction of Butyric Acid (q.v.) and Hyaluronic Acid

CAS 942471-70-7

Sodium Butyroyl/Formoyl Hyaluronate is the sodium salt of the product obtained by the esterification of butyric and formic acids with Hyalu…

CAS 100201-66-0

SODIUM COLANATE

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Sodium Colanate is a polyanionic heteropolysaccharide produced through fermentation by E. coli.

CAS 9012-87-7

SODIUM FUNORAN

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Sodium Funoran is the sodium salt of funoran, a sulfated polysaccharide extracted from red algae.

Sodium Heparosan is the sodium salt of the mucopolysaccharide comprised of repeating units of β-D-glucuronic acid and N-acetyl- a-D-glucosa…

CAS 1544497-09-7

Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer-3 is the sodium salt of Hyaluronic Acid that has been oxidized to facilate the subsequent crosslinking by p…

Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer-5 is the sodium salt of Hyaluronic Acid that is crosslinked with Triethylamine and chloromethyl-pyridinium …

Butanedioic acid, hydroxy-, monosodium salt

CAS 58214-38-3

Sodium 5-oxo-2-pyrrolidinecarboxylate

CAS 28874-51-3

These widely assigned CosIng terms provide populated comparison pages; they are not presented as semantic equivalents of the current function.

How the HUMECTANT function is used in CosIng

The HUMECTANT function is assigned by the European Commission in the CosIng ingredient inventory. This page currently lists 2189 ingredients carrying that function label in the dataset, which helps you move from a functional claim to the exact ingredients that use it.

Retaining and/or preserving the moisture in a product during use.

Function assignments come from official EU CosIng data. They describe intended cosmetic use, but they do not replace regulatory review of each linked ingredient and any annex records tied to it.