Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 17 products, most often sunscreen.
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What does C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate Copolymer do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate Copolymer makes the product thicker or thinner, holds a powder or a pressed product together and keeps the product stable. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, binding and stabilising.
What is C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate Copolymer?
C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate Copolymer is a copolymer of C12-22 alkyl acrylate and hydroxyethylacrylate.
- CosIng reference
- 83107
Which products contain C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate Copolymer?
Open Beauty Facts finds C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 17 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 5 · Morocco 3 · Germany 2 · Turkey 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where C12-22 Alkyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethylacrylate 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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