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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Calcium Lactate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Calcium Lactate is a cosmetic ingredient that tightens the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 14 products, most often toothpastes.

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What does Calcium Lactate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Calcium Lactate tightens the skin, keeps the product's acidity steady and loosens dead skin cells. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: astringent, buffering and keratolytic.

astringentbufferingkeratolytic

What other names and numbers does Calcium Lactate have?

CAS number
814-80-2
EC number
212-406-7
CosIng reference
74902

Which products contain Calcium Lactate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Calcium Lactate in the ingredient lists of 14 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes, oral care and roll-on deodorants.

  • Toothpastes6
  • Oral care2
  • Roll-on deodorants1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3 · Turkey 3 · Russia 2 · France 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Calcium Lactate 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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