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INCI ingredient

Barium Sulfate

Barium Sulfate appears on 11 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

Barium Sulfate appears on 11 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: colorant, opacifying

Products with Barium Sulfate

in 11 products

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

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • colorant
  • opacifying
  • colorant: Exclusively or mainly intended to colour the cosmetic product, the body as a whole or certain parts thereof, by absorption or reflection of visible light; (precursors of oxidative hair colorants shall be deemed colorants). All authorised colorants are substances in the positive list of Annex IV to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.

CAS 7727-43-7 · EC 231-784-4

EU regulation

Listed in Annex IV (ref. 122) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. IV/122

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

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