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INCI ingredient

Cera Alba

Also listed as: Beeswax, Cera Flava

Beeswax, a natural wax from honeycomb used to thicken balms and lipsticks.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNoanimal-derived
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

If a product lists Cera Alba, its vegan answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Cera alba is bleached beeswax. It gives balms and sticks their structure and leaves a protective film on the skin.

It comes from bees, so a product that lists it is not vegan.

Functions: thickener, emollient

Products with Cera Alba

in 203 products

Showing 24 of 203 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • skin conditioning - emollient
  • surfactant - emulsifying
  • film forming
  • perfuming
  • skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
  • surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
  • film forming: Producing (upon application) a continuous film on the skin, hair or nails.
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.

CAS 8012-89-3 · EC 232-383-7

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.

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

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