Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Maris Aqua in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Maris Aqua is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 31 products, most often bath and shower.

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What does Maris Aqua do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Maris Aqua holds water in the skin or the product and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and solvent.

humectantsolvent

What other names and numbers does Maris Aqua have?

CosIng reference
35170

Which products contain Maris Aqua?

Open Beauty Facts finds Maris Aqua in the ingredient lists of 31 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often bath and shower, shower gels and facial creams.

  • Bath and shower4
  • Shower gels4
  • Facial creams2
  • Body care2
  • Face care2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 19 · United States 4 · Germany 2 · Ireland 1.

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