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INCI ingredient

Acrylamidopropyltrimonium Chloride/Acrylamide Copolymer

Acrylamidopropyltrimonium Chloride/Acrylamide Copolymer appears on 10 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair treatments.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Acrylamidopropyltrimonium Chloride/Acrylamide Copolymer appears on 10 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair treatments.

It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: antistatic, film forming, hair fixing

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antistatic
  • film forming
  • hair fixing
  • antistatic: Preventing and/or reducing static electricity by neutralising electrical charge on surfaces.
  • film forming: Producing (upon application) a continuous film on the skin, hair or nails.
  • hair fixing: Permitting physical control of hair style.
EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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