Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Urea in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Urea is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 363 products, most often body care.
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What does Urea do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Urea holds water in the skin or the product, keeps the skin in good condition and reduces static, so hair stays flat. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant, skin conditioning, antistatic and buffering.
What other names and numbers does Urea have?
- CAS number
- 57-13-6
- EC number
- 200-315-5
- CosIng reference
- 38838
Which products contain Urea?
Open Beauty Facts finds Urea in the ingredient lists of 363 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, hand creams and body creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 94 · France 76 · Spain 47 · United States 27.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Urea 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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