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Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 14 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, and makes more or longer-lasting foam. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant and foam boosting.

surfactantfoam boosting

What is Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate?

Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate is the sodium salt of the product obtained by the reaction of Dextrin with dodecenylsuccinic anhydride.

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Which products contain Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate in the ingredient lists of 14 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos and hair care.

  • Shampoos4
  • Hair care2

Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 5 · United States 3 · Netherlands 2 · Germany 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Hydrolyzed Potato Starch Dodecenylsuccinate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsSurfactants and cleansers

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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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