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INCI ingredient

Camphor

Camphor appears on 102 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair cares.

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

Camphor appears on 102 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair cares.

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: denaturant, fragrance, plasticiser

Products with Camphor

in 102 products

Showing 24 of 102 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • denaturant
  • fragrance
  • plasticiser
  • denaturant: Rendering cosmetics unpalatable. Mostly added to cosmetics containing ethyl alcohol to make it unsuitable for ingestion.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • plasticiser: Softening and making supple synthetic polumers that otherwise could not be easily deformed, spread or worked out.

CAS 464-49-3 / 76-22-2 · EC 207-355-2 / 200-945-0

EU regulation

Listed in Annex III (ref. 331) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation.

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

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