Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 6 products, most often body care.

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What does Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming and emulsion stabilising.

viscosity controllingfilm formingemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer have?

CosIng reference
31667

Which products contain Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer in the ingredient lists of 6 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, hand creams and sunscreen.

  • Body care3
  • Hand creams3
  • Sunscreen1

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 2 · Spain 2 · France 2 · Nicaragua 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer 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

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