Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride is a cosmetic ingredient that makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 19 products, most often shampoos.
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What does Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier, makes the product thicker or thinner and reduces static, so hair stays flat. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: hair conditioning, viscosity controlling, antistatic and emulsion stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride have?
- CAS number
- 56780-58-6
- CosIng reference
- 58539
Which products contain Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride?
Open Beauty Facts finds Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride in the ingredient lists of 19 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, bath and shower and shower gels.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 10 · France 3 · Morocco 3 · Australia 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride 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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