# Hexamidine

URL: https://app.greenveil.ai/ingredients/ingredient_cas_3811_75_4
Categories: beauty, industrial
Functions: preservative, Preservative

> Hexamidine is used as preservative / preservative. Greenveil chemical-concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern.. Assessed from 6 sources.

## Safety assessment

- Chemical concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern.
- Confidence: 4
- Rationale: Benzenecarboximidamide, 4,4'-(1,6-hexanediylbis(oxy))bis-, and its salts (including isothionate and p-hydroxybenzoate) is listed in Annex V of the EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 (preservatives allowed in cosmetic products).

_Assessed by Greenveil._