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INCI ingredient

Ammonium Persulfate

Ammonium Persulfate appears on 7 ingredient lists in our database.

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

Ammonium Persulfate appears on 7 ingredient lists in our database.

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: bleaching, oxidising

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • bleaching
  • oxidising
  • bleaching: Bleaching or lightening the shade of hair and/or skin.
  • oxidising: Changing the chemical nature of another ingredient by adding oxygen (or removing hydrogen).

CAS 7727-54-0 · EC 231-786-5

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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