Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Gossypium Herbaceum Flower Extract in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Gossypium Herbaceum Flower Extract is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 16 products, most often bath and shower.

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What does Gossypium Herbaceum Flower Extract do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Gossypium Herbaceum Flower Extract holds water in the skin or the product and keeps the skin in good condition. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and skin conditioning.

humectantskin conditioning

What is Gossypium Herbaceum Flower Extract?

Gossypium Herbaceum Flower Extract is the extract obtained from the flowers of Cotton, Gossypium herbaceum L., Malvaceae.

CosIng reference
84695

Which products contain Gossypium Herbaceum Flower Extract?

Open Beauty Facts finds Gossypium Herbaceum Flower Extract in the ingredient lists of 16 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often bath and shower, shower gels and shampoos.

  • Bath and shower4
  • Shower gels3
  • Shampoos1
  • Shampoos for children1
  • Soaps1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 12 · Germany 3 · Netherlands 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Gossypium Herbaceum Flower 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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