Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Sodium Polyacrylate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Sodium Polyacrylate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 242 products, most often body care.
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What does Sodium Polyacrylate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Sodium Polyacrylate softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning, viscosity controlling, film forming, absorbent, binding, emulsion stabilising and hair fixing.
What other names and numbers does Sodium Polyacrylate have?
- CAS number
- 9003-04-7, 25549-84-2
- CosIng reference
- 79997
Which products contain Sodium Polyacrylate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Polyacrylate in the ingredient lists of 242 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, hand creams and skincare.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 72 · Turkey 27 · Germany 23 · United States 22.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Polyacrylate 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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