Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 13 products, most often shaving.

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What does Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans holds water in the skin or the product, keeps the skin in good condition and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant, skin conditioning and hair conditioning.

humectantskin conditioninghair conditioning

What other names and numbers does Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans have?

CAS number
156715-51-4
CosIng reference
76595

Which products contain Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans?

Open Beauty Facts finds Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans in the ingredient lists of 13 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shaving, aftershaves and shampoos.

  • Shaving1
  • Aftershaves1
  • Shampoos1

Products with it, by country of sale: Poland 3 · Turkey 3 · France 1 · Spain 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans 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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