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INCI ingredient

Formaldehyde

Also listed as: Formaldéhyde

Formaldehyde appears on 4 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

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

Formaldehyde appears on 4 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

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: antimicrobial, denaturant, preservative

Products with Formaldehyde

in 4 products

Showing 4 of 4 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antimicrobial
  • denaturant
  • preservative
  • antimicrobial: Preventing and/or slowing down microbial growth.
  • denaturant: Rendering cosmetics unpalatable. Mostly added to cosmetics containing ethyl alcohol to make it unsuitable for ingestion.
  • preservative: Exclusively or mainly intended to inhibit the development of micro-organisms in the cosmetic product. All authorised preservatives are substances in the positive list of Annex V to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.

CAS 50-00-0 · EC 200-001-8

EU regulation

Listed in Annex II (ref. 1577) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. II/1577

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

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