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INCI ingredient

Calcium Carbonate

Also listed as: Calcium Carbonate)

Calcium Carbonate appears on 189 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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

Calcium Carbonate appears on 189 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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: abrasive, buffering, bulking, opacifying, oral care

Products with Calcium Carbonate

in 189 products

Showing 24 of 189 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • abrasive
  • buffering
  • bulking
  • opacifying
  • oral care
  • abrasive: Removing unwanted tissue or foreign materials from various body surfaces, including mechanical tooth cleaning and/or gloss improvement.
  • buffering: Stabilising the pH of an aqueous medium in a narrow range even if an acid or base is added. Altering and/or maintaining a cosmetic product's pH at the desired level.
  • bulking: Non-reactive (chemically inert), solid ingredients that dilute other solids and/or increase the volume of cosmetic products.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.

CAS 471-34-1 · EC 207-439-9 -- 215-279-6

EU regulation

Listed in Annex IV (ref. 124) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. IV/124 Purity criteria as set out in Commission Directive 95/45/EC (E 170)

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

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