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INCI ingredient

Aqua

Also listed as: Water, Aqua (Water), Water (Aqua), Aqua/Water/Eau

Water. The base of almost every cream, lotion, cleanser and toner.

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

Water dissolves the water-soluble ingredients and carries them onto the skin. It is listed first because it is usually the largest part of the formula. On European labels it appears as Aqua, sometimes with Water or Eau in brackets.

It has no effect on any of the six checks.

Functions: solvent

Products with Aqua

in 11,175 products

Showing 24 of 11,175 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antiplaque
  • skin conditioning
  • solvent
  • antiplaque: Helping protect against plaque.
  • skin conditioning: Maintaining the skin in good condition.
  • solvent: Dissolving other components of cosmetics. Solvents are usually liquids (aqueous and nonaqueous).

CAS 7732-18-5 · EC 231-791-2 (I)

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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