Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Acrylates/Dimethicone Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Acrylates/Dimethicone Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the skin in good condition. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 23 products, most often sunscreen.
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What does Acrylates/Dimethicone Copolymer do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Acrylates/Dimethicone Copolymer keeps the skin in good condition, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and keeps a powder free-flowing. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: skin conditioning, film forming, anticaking and binding.
What other names and numbers does Acrylates/Dimethicone Copolymer have?
- CosIng reference
- 74167
Which products contain Acrylates/Dimethicone Copolymer?
Open Beauty Facts finds Acrylates/Dimethicone Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 23 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, face care and face makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 7 · Australia 6 · Germany 6 · France 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Acrylates/Dimethicone 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’.
- 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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