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INCI ingredient

Dicalcium Phosphate Dihydrate

Also listed as: Ingredients: Dicalcium Phosphate Dihydrate

Dicalcium Phosphate Dihydrate appears on 20 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 Dihydrate appears on 20 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, opacifying, oral care

Products with Dicalcium Phosphate Dihydrate

in 20 products

Showing 20 of 20 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • abrasive
  • opacifying
  • oral care
  • abrasive: Removing unwanted tissue or foreign materials from various body surfaces, including mechanical tooth cleaning and/or gloss improvement.
  • 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 / 7789-77-7 · 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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