Ca
Calcium Gluconate
Calcium Gluconate
A sugar-derived calcium salt that binds metals in the formula and conditions skin.
What it does
It’s calcium paired with gluconic acid, which is made from glucose. In a formula it binds trace metals that could spoil it, and it acts as a skin conditioner.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2019) assessed 25 sugars and related ingredients, many of them everyday food sugars or close relatives and their salts. Their index lists sodium gluconate and calcium gluconate under that report. They judged all 25 safe as used in cosmetics.Fiume 2019 · International Journal of Toxicology ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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