Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Colloidal Oatmeal in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Colloidal Oatmeal is a cosmetic ingredient that scrubs or polishes. Bravoora reads it as gluten. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 16 products, most often shaving soaps.
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What does Colloidal Oatmeal do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Colloidal Oatmeal scrubs or polishes, absorbs water or oil and adds volume to a powder. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: abrasive, absorbent, bulking and skin protecting.
What other names and numbers does Colloidal Oatmeal have?
- CosIng reference
- 33009
Does Colloidal Oatmeal come from a food allergen?
Bravoora’s label checker reads Colloidal Oatmeal as gluten, because the name points to it: a profile that avoids gluten gets Not for you on a product with it. Cosmetic labels use INCI names and no food-allergen rule applies to them, so the name is the only clue.
Who should look out for Colloidal Oatmeal?
Which products contain Colloidal Oatmeal?
Open Beauty Facts finds Colloidal Oatmeal in the ingredient lists of 16 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shaving soaps, soaps and baby wash.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 6 · Australia 6 · United States 5 · Italy 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Colloidal Oatmeal turns up, not how much of the market it is.
Bravoora reads this ingredient for everyone you shop for: an allergy or intolerance, a vegan or vegetarian diet, a calorie or protein goal, and the labels on supplements and skincare too. Build a profile · For dermatologists, dietitians and doctors
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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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