Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the skin in good condition. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 1,020 products, most often shampoos.
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What does Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride keeps the skin in good condition, makes the product thicker or thinner and leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: skin conditioning, viscosity controlling, film forming and antistatic.
What other names and numbers does Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride have?
- CAS number
- 65497-29-2
- CosIng reference
- 34177
Which products contain Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride?
Open Beauty Facts finds Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride in the ingredient lists of 1,020 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, hair care and anti-dandruff shampoos.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 306 · Germany 161 · United States 143 · Australia 104.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride 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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