Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Sodium Polyglutamate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Sodium Polyglutamate is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 8 products, most often face care.
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What does Sodium Polyglutamate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Sodium Polyglutamate holds water in the skin or the product, keeps the skin in good condition and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant, skin conditioning and hair conditioning.
What other names and numbers does Sodium Polyglutamate have?
- CAS number
- 28829-38-1
- CosIng reference
- 80001
Which products contain Sodium Polyglutamate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Polyglutamate in the ingredient lists of 8 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care, lip balms and eye patch.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 3 · France 2 · Norway 1 · India 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Polyglutamate 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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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