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INCI ingredient

Nitrocellulose

Nitrocellulose appears on 136 ingredient lists in our database, most often in nail productss.

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

Nitrocellulose appears on 136 ingredient lists in our database, most often in nail productss.

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: film forming, dispersing non-surfactant

Products with Nitrocellulose

in 136 products

Showing 24 of 136 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • film forming
  • dispersing non-surfactant
  • film forming: Producing (upon application) a continuous film on the skin, hair or nails.
  • dispersing non-surfactant: Facilitating the dispersion of solids in liquids. They function primarily by coating the solid through the process of adsorption, thus changing the surface characteristic of the suspended solid.

CAS 9004-70-0

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