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INCI ingredient

Calcium Lactate

Calcium Lactate appears on 11 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureplant or 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 Lactate appears on 11 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: astringent, buffering, keratolytic

Products with Calcium Lactate

in 11 products

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

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • astringent
  • buffering
  • keratolytic
  • astringent: Contracting and/or tightening the skin.
  • 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.
  • keratolytic: Helping to eliminate the dead cells of the stratum corneum.

CAS 814-80-2 · EC 212-406-7

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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