Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 643 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming and emulsion stabilising.

viscosity controllingfilm formingemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer have?

CosIng reference
74162

Which products contain Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer in the ingredient lists of 643 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, body care and face care.

  • Sunscreen79
  • Body care35
  • Face care27

Products with it, by country of sale: France 150 · United States 79 · Germany 68 · Spain 50.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer turns up, not how much of the market it is.

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Sources

The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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