INCI ingredient

Calcium Carbonate Limestone Abrasive

Also listed as: Calcium Carbonate, Calcium Carbonate (Limestone Abrasive)

Calcium Carbonate Limestone Abrasive appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

What it triggers

Calcium Carbonate Limestone Abrasive appears on 3 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

in 3 products

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Functions listed by CosIng

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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