# RICE SH-POLYPEPTIDE-3

URL: https://app.greenveil.ai/ingredients/ingredient_inci_rice_sh_polypeptide_3
Categories: beauty
Functions: Humectant, Skin conditioning, Opacifying
Identifier: RICE SH-POLYPEPTIDE-3

> RICE SH-POLYPEPTIDE-3: Used in cosmetics as a humectant, a skin-conditioning agent and an opacifier. Canonical ingredient record built from 1 public-source records. Compiled from 1 published data source.

## Safety assessment

- Chemical concern: not yet assessed
- Is it a concern? We haven't assessed a concern score for this ingredient yet. It is listed for cosmetic use in the EU.
- Rationale: Canonical ingredient record built from 1 public-source records.

## Regulatory status

- EU: Active — Rice sh-Polypeptide-3 is a single chain recombinant human peptide, produced by transgenic rice, Oryza sativa, after the transient expression or stable insertion of a copy of a human gene into its DNA.

## Expert safety opinions

- SCCS (EU Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety): no opinion on file.
- CIR (Cosmetic Ingredient Review (US expert panel)): no opinion on file.

## Data sources

- CosIng (updated 2026-09-23): https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/details/94163

_Assessed by Greenveil._