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INCI ingredient

Charcoal Powder

Charcoal Powder appears on 123 ingredient lists in our database, most often in deodorants.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Charcoal Powder appears on 123 ingredient lists in our database, most often in deodorants.

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, absorbent, opacifying

Products with Charcoal Powder

in 123 products

Showing 24 of 123 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • abrasive
  • absorbent
  • opacifying
  • abrasive: Removing unwanted tissue or foreign materials from various body surfaces, including mechanical tooth cleaning and/or gloss improvement.
  • absorbent: Taking up water- and/or oil-soluble (dissolved or finely dispersed) substances.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.

CAS 16291-96-6 ; 7440-44-0 (generic) · EC 240-383-3

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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