Croscarmellose Sodium
Also listed as: Croscarmellose
Croscarmellose Sodium appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.
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
Croscarmellose Sodium appears on 2 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: binding, bulking, gel forming, viscosity controlling
Products with Croscarmellose Sodium
in 2 products
Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- binding
- bulking
- gel forming
- viscosity controlling
- binding: Providing adhesive properties during and after compression in cosmetic tablets and/or cakes.
- bulking: Non-reactive (chemically inert), solid ingredients that dilute other solids and/or increase the volume of cosmetic products.
- gel forming: Giving the consistency of a gel (a semi-solid preparation with some elasticity) to a liquid preparation.
- viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
CAS 9000-11-7
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.