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Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 54 products, most often face makeup.

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What does Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer holds water in the skin or the product and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and viscosity controlling.

humectantviscosity controlling

What is Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer?

Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer is a copolymer of glyceryl acrylate and acrylic acid.

CosIng reference
56203

Which products contain Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 54 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup, foundations and sheet masks.

  • Face makeup20
  • Foundations20
  • Sheet masks3

Products with it, by country of sale: Mexico 20 · France 5 · United States 4 · Australia 4.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsHumectants

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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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