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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Nylon-12 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Nylon-12 is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 126 products, most often face makeup.

By Bravoora teamUpdated Sources checked 2 sourcesHow we check

What does Nylon-12 do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Nylon-12 makes the product thicker or thinner, adds volume to a powder and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, bulking and opacifying.

viscosity controllingbulkingopacifying

What other names and numbers does Nylon-12 have?

CAS number
25038-74-8
CosIng reference
35565

Which products contain Nylon-12?

Open Beauty Facts finds Nylon-12 in the ingredient lists of 126 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup, foundations and makeup.

  • Face makeup34
  • Foundations24
  • Makeup9
  • Eye makeup7

Products with it, by country of sale: France 34 · Norway 22 · Mexico 20 · Australia 10.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Nylon-12 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

Contains information from Open Beauty Facts, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL). Read the licence · Download this dictionary’s data · How we check

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