Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Dicalcium Phosphate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Dicalcium Phosphate is a cosmetic ingredient that scrubs or polishes. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 25 products, most often toothpastes.
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What does Dicalcium Phosphate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Dicalcium Phosphate scrubs or polishes, adds volume to a powder and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: abrasive, bulking, opacifying and oral care.
What other names and numbers does Dicalcium Phosphate have?
- CAS number
- 7757-93-9
- EC number
- 231-826-1
- CosIng reference
- 75666
Which products contain Dicalcium Phosphate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Dicalcium Phosphate in the ingredient lists of 25 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 6 · United States 5 · Switzerland 4 · Norway 4.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Dicalcium Phosphate 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’.
- 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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