Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Hydroxypropylgluconamide in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Hydroxypropylgluconamide is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 14 products.

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What does Hydroxypropylgluconamide do in a product?

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

humectanthair conditioning

What is Hydroxypropylgluconamide?

Hydroxypropylgluconamide is the product obtained by the reaction of Gluconolactone with 3-aminopropanol.

CAS number
190445-18-2
CosIng reference
95588

Which products contain Hydroxypropylgluconamide?

Open Beauty Facts finds Hydroxypropylgluconamide in the ingredient lists of 14 of the 22,021 products it has a list for.

Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 7 · Germany 5 · Morocco 3 · Portugal 1.

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