Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate is a cosmetic ingredient that leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 16 products, most often deodorants.
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What does Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails, absorbs water or oil and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: film forming, absorbent and binding.
What is Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate?
Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate is the reaction product of octenylsuccinic anhydride with Hydrolyzed Corn Starch.
- CosIng reference
- 56605
Which products contain Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate in the ingredient lists of 16 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants and anti-perspirants.
Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 13 · Turkey 3 · New Zealand 1 · Germany 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Octenylsuccinate 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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