Hydrogenated Soybean Oil ●
TL;DR. This ingredient is a solid lipid emollient and structuring agent. It adds cushion, reduces water loss, increases viscosity, and helps give balms, sticks, creams, and butters a firmer texture.
What does Hydrogenated Soybean Oil do in a cosmetic formula?
This ingredient is a solid lipid emollient and structuring agent. It adds cushion, reduces water loss, increases viscosity, and helps give balms, sticks, creams, and butters a firmer texture.
Is Hydrogenated Soybean Oil clean?
It is generally well tolerated in skin-care and color-cosmetic formulas, with low irritation potential and little clean-standard friction. Residual catalyst traces from processing are controlled by cosmetic raw-material specifications.
Is Hydrogenated Soybean Oil sustainable?
This material comes from a renewable crop feedstock and is expected to biodegrade like other natural triglyceride lipids. The main sustainability caveats are agricultural supply-chain issues, including land use, traceability, and pesticide or genetically modified crop practices depending on the source.
Is Hydrogenated Soybean Oil COSMOS-approved?
It is generally compatible with COSMOS-natural and COSMOS-organic frameworks when the agricultural feedstock and processing aids meet the standard’s requirements. From a Green Chemistry view, it scores well for renewable origin and biodegradability, with a processing step that adds some energy and catalyst-management considerations.
How does Hydrogenated Soybean Oil work chemically?
The molecule is a triglyceride-rich solid fat in which many carbon-carbon double bonds have been saturated, which raises melting point and improves resistance to rancidity. It is commonly used around 1 to 10% in creams and lotions, and higher in sticks or balms where firmness, payoff, and melt profile matter.
Last updated 2026-05-13