Database/Antistatic/Panthenyl Hydroxypropyl Steardimonium Chloride
Mostly petroleum · ISO 16128

Is Panthenyl Hydroxypropyl Steardimonium Chloride natural?

Mostly not. Natural stearyl chain and mineral chloride offset a synthetic hydroxypropyl/methyl quaternary-ammonium core and aminopropanol-amide built from petrochemical intermediates.

INCI namePanthenyl Hydroxypropyl Steardimonium Chloride
CAS132467-76-6
FormulaC32H67ClN2O5 · 595.3 Da
FunctionAntistatic · Hair Conditioning
FeedstockMade by reacting a fatty stearylamine with epichlorohydrin…

How we scored it

Stearyl C18H37 natural (253Da) + Cl natural (35Da) = 289 vs dimethyl+quat N+hydroxypropyl linker+pantoyl-aminopropanol amide petrochemical (306Da). 289/595 = 0.48.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.

Where it comes from

Made by reacting a fatty stearylamine with epichlorohydrin and methylating agents and a pantothenate-aminopropanol amide, then quaternising with chloride. Fragment assignment here involved judgement calls on a multi-part molecule.

In plain English

A conditioning ingredient for hair that combines a fatty stearyl chain with a vitamin-B5-related, lab-modified quaternary ammonium group. Roughly half its weight traces to natural fats; the rest is synthetic.

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Structure

2D structure of Panthenyl Hydroxypropyl Steardimonium Chloride

[2-hydroxy-3-[3-hydroxy-4-(3-hydroxypropylamino)-2,2-dimethyl-4-oxobutoxy]propyl]-dimethyl-octadecylazanium chloride

PubChem CID 71587483 ↗

References

  1. 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
  2. 2Panthenyl Hydroxypropyl Steardimonium Chloride. PubChem CID 71587483. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3PANTHENYL HYDROXYPROPYL STEARDIMONIUM CHLORIDE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4PANTHENYL HYDROXYPROPYL STEARDIMONIUM CHLORIDE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PANTHENYL%20HYDROXYPROPYL%20STEARDIMONIUM%20CHLORIDE