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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 46 products, most often shower gels.

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What does Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate makes the product thicker or thinner, scrubs or polishes and adds volume to a powder. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, abrasive and bulking.

viscosity controllingabrasivebulking

What other names and numbers does Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate have?

CAS number
221355-22-2
CosIng reference
37893

Which products contain Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate in the ingredient lists of 46 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shower gels, bath and shower and body washes.

  • Shower gels10
  • Bath and shower9
  • Body washes2
  • Body care1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 21 · United States 10 · United Kingdom 4 · Netherlands 3.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate 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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