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INCI ingredient

Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer

Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer appears on 18 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

Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer appears on 18 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: film forming, opacifying, viscosity controlling

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • film forming
  • opacifying
  • viscosity controlling
  • film forming: Producing (upon application) a continuous film on the skin, hair or nails.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 9010-92-8

EU regulation

Listed in Annex II (ref. 1725) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation.

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