Copper Gluconate

The Basics On Copper Gluconate

What is Copper Gluconate?

Also known simply as copper.

What are other names for Copper Gluconate?

BIS(D-GLUCONATO)- COPPER, BIS(D-GLUCONATO)COPPER, COPPER DI-D-GLUCONATE, COPPER GLUCONATE, COPPER SALT GLUCONIC ACID, COPPER, BIS(D-GLUCONATO)-, COPPER, BIS(D-GLUCONATO-.KAPPA.O1,.KAPPA.O2)-, COPPER, BIS(DGLUCONATOO1,O2), CUPRIC GLUCONATE, and GLUCONIC ACID, COPPER SALT

What is Copper Gluconate used for?

In cosmetics and personal care products, copper gluconate primarily functions as an anti-aging ingredient. … Another way that copper gluconate functions as anti-aging ingredient is due to its antioxidant activity. Copper serves as a cofactor of superoxide dismutase, a powerful antioxidant enzyme present in the skin.

How Copper Gluconate is classified

Antioxidants

Recommendations for using Copper Gluconate during pregnancy and breastfeeding

Limited data suggests no known risk

 

Copper Gluconate During Pregnancy

What we know about using Copper Gluconate while pregnant or breastfeeding

Limited information available.

According to the package insert for the prescription drug lactulose, in studies of mice, rats, and rabbits, doses of lactulose solution up to 6 or 12 ml/kg/day produced no deleterious effects on breeding, conception, or parturition.31 (Details were not provided.)

General safety info about Copper Gluconate from CIR

The Expert Panel assessed the safety of 25 monosaccharides, disaccharides, and related ingredients, and concluded these ingredients are safe as used in cosmetics. Many of these ingredients are common dietary sugars, dietary sugar replacements, or very closely related analogs and salts; seven of the ingredients are GRAS food substances. The most commonly reported cosmetic function is as a skin conditioning agent; other commonly-reported functions are use as a humectant or as a flavoring agent. The Panel reviewed the animal and clinical data included in this review. The Panel also acknowledged that the oral safety of many of these ingredients has been well established, and found it appropriate to extrapolate the existing information to conclude on the safety of all the monosaccharides, disaccharides, and related ingredients

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Products where you might find Copper Gluconate

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