Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Quaternium-91 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Quaternium-91 is a cosmetic ingredient that makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 12 products, most often hair care.

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What does Quaternium-91 do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Quaternium-91 makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: hair conditioning.

hair conditioning

What other names and numbers does Quaternium-91 have?

CosIng reference
58942

Which products contain Quaternium-91?

Open Beauty Facts finds Quaternium-91 in the ingredient lists of 12 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care, hair conditioners and hair dyes.

  • Hair care3
  • Hair conditioners1
  • Hair dyes1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 3 · United States 3 · Switzerland 2 · Canada 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Quaternium-91 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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