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INCI ingredient

Zinc Citrate

Zinc Citrate appears on 195 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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

Zinc Citrate appears on 195 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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: antimicrobial, antiplaque, oral care

Products with Zinc Citrate

in 195 products

Showing 24 of 195 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antimicrobial
  • antiplaque
  • oral care
  • antimicrobial: Preventing and/or slowing down microbial growth.
  • antiplaque: Helping protect against plaque.
  • oral care: Providing cosmetic effects to the oral cavity, e.g. cleansing, deodorising, protecting.

CAS 546-46-3 · EC 208-901-2

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