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Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 8 products, most often anti-ageing face care.

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What does Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract holds water in the skin or the product and leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and film forming.

humectantfilm forming

What is Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract?

Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract is the extract of the roots of Amorphophallus konjac, Araceae.

CAS number
37220-17-0
EC number
253-404-6
CosIng reference
83764

Which products contain Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract?

Open Beauty Facts finds Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract in the ingredient lists of 8 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often anti-ageing face care, anti-wrinkle creams and body creams.

  • Anti-ageing face care1
  • Anti-wrinkle creams1
  • Body creams1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 3 · Germany 3 · Canada 1 · Australia 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Amorphophallus Konjac Root Extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsHumectants

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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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