Maleic Acid
Maleic Acid appears on 7 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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
Maleic Acid appears on 7 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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: buffering
Products with Maleic Acid
in 7 products
- no photoLacura SonnenmilchLacura · sunscreen
- no photoBalea Mizellen Reinigungs Wasser RoseBalea · makeup remover
- no photoLacura Sun Lait Solaire SPF 50Lacura Sun · sunscreen
Sun Ozon Sunclean Sonnenmilch LSF 30Sun Ozon · sunscreen- no photoRené FURTERER Paris Shampooing antipelliculaire équilibrant pellicules grassesRené FURTERER Paris · anti-dandruff shampoo
Matrix Bond Ultim8Matrix
Kruidvat Solait 50+ kidsKruidvat · sunscreen
Showing 7 of 7 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
Functions listed by CosIng
- buffering
- buffering: Stabilising the pH of an aqueous medium in a narrow range even if an acid or base is added. Altering and/or maintaining a cosmetic product's pH at the desired level.
CAS 110-16-7 · EC 203-742-5
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.
Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake