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INCI ingredient

Formic Acid

Formic Acid appears on 73 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

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

Formic Acid appears on 73 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: fragrance, preservative, ph adjusters

Products with Formic Acid

in 73 products

Showing 24 of 73 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • fragrance
  • preservative
  • ph adjusters
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • 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.
  • ph adjusters: Controlling the pH of cosmetic products.

CAS 64-18-6 · EC 200-579-1

EU regulation

Listed in Annex V (ref. 14) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration 0.5% (as acid). V/14

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

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