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INCI ingredient

Dicalcium Phosphate

Dicalcium Phosphate appears on 21 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

Dicalcium Phosphate appears on 21 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: abrasive, bulking, opacifying, oral care

Products with Dicalcium Phosphate

in 21 products

Showing 21 of 21 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • abrasive
  • bulking
  • opacifying
  • oral care
  • abrasive: Removing unwanted tissue or foreign materials from various body surfaces, including mechanical tooth cleaning and/or gloss improvement.
  • bulking: Non-reactive (chemically inert), solid ingredients that dilute other solids and/or increase the volume of cosmetic products.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.
  • oral care: Providing cosmetic effects to the oral cavity, e.g. cleansing, deodorising, protecting.

CAS 7757-93-9 · EC 231-826-1

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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