Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 72 products, most often facial creams.
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What does Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate makes the product thicker or thinner and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling and emulsion stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate have?
- CAS number
- 62152-14-1
- CosIng reference
- 54601
Which products contain Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate in the ingredient lists of 72 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often facial creams, body care and face care.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 25 · United States 11 · Norway 8 · Netherlands 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate 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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