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INCI ingredient

Polyacrylamide

Also listed as: (Polyacrylamide, Polyacrylamide/Poliacrilamida

Polyacrylamide appears on 107 ingredient lists in our database, most often in face creams.

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

Polyacrylamide appears on 107 ingredient lists in our database, most often in face creams.

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: antistatic, binding, film forming

Products with Polyacrylamide

in 107 products

Showing 24 of 107 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antistatic
  • binding
  • film forming
  • antistatic: Preventing and/or reducing static electricity by neutralising electrical charge on surfaces.
  • binding: Providing adhesive properties during and after compression in cosmetic tablets and/or cakes.
  • film forming: Producing (upon application) a continuous film on the skin, hair or nails.

CAS 9003-05-8

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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