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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Polyquaternium-44 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Polyquaternium-44 is a cosmetic ingredient that leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 8 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Polyquaternium-44 do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Polyquaternium-44 leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and reduces static, so hair stays flat. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: film forming and antistatic.

film formingantistatic

What other names and numbers does Polyquaternium-44 have?

CosIng reference
58826

Which products contain Polyquaternium-44?

Open Beauty Facts finds Polyquaternium-44 in the ingredient lists of 8 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos and hair care.

  • Shampoos4
  • Hair care3

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 3 · United States 3 · Morocco 1 · India 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Polyquaternium-44 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’.

  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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