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Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 93 products, most often body care.

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What does Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer makes the product thicker or thinner and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling and emulsion stabilising.

viscosity controllingemulsion stabilising

What is Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer?

Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer is a copolymer of sodium hydroxyethyl acrylate and acryloyldimethyl taurate monomers.

CAS number
111286-86-3
CosIng reference
56798

Which products contain Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 93 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, sunscreen and face care.

  • Body care8
  • Sunscreen7
  • Face care5

Products with it, by country of sale: France 19 · United States 17 · Spain 9 · Turkey 6.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate 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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