Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 34 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and holds a hairstyle. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: film forming and hair fixing.

film forminghair fixing

What other names and numbers does Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer have?

CAS number
129702-02-9
CosIng reference
31660

Which products contain Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 34 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, perfumes and hair care.

  • Sunscreen16
  • Perfumes3
  • Hair care1

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 7 · United States 6 · France 5 · Spain 5.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Acrylates/Octylacrylamide Copolymer 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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