Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Dehydroxanthan Gum in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Dehydroxanthan Gum is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 23 products, most often face care.
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What does Dehydroxanthan Gum do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Dehydroxanthan Gum makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming, emulsion stabilising and hair fixing.
What is Dehydroxanthan Gum?
Dehydroxanthan Gum is the product obtained by the dehydration of Xanthan Gum.
- CosIng reference
- 55723
Which products contain Dehydroxanthan Gum?
Open Beauty Facts finds Dehydroxanthan Gum in the ingredient lists of 23 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care, hair care and cleansers.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 11 · Germany 6 · Italy 2 · Morocco 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Dehydroxanthan Gum 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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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