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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Carbomer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Carbomer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 1,678 products, most often body care.

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What does Carbomer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Carbomer makes the product thicker or thinner, keeps an emulsion from separating and turns a liquid into a gel. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, emulsion stabilising and gel forming.

viscosity controllingemulsion stabilisinggel forming

What other names and numbers does Carbomer have?

CAS number
9007-20-9, 9003-01-4, 76050-42-5, 9062-04-8, 9007-16-3, 9007-17-4
CosIng reference
74820

Which products contain Carbomer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Carbomer in the ingredient lists of 1,678 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, shampoos and hair care.

  • Body care121
  • Shampoos99
  • Hair care86

Products with it, by country of sale: France 387 · United States 258 · Germany 133 · Spain 120.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Carbomer 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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