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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Ethylene/Va Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Ethylene/Va Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 32 products, most often makeup.

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What does Ethylene/Va Copolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Ethylene/Va Copolymer leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails, holds a powder or a pressed product together and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: film forming, binding and emulsion stabilising.

film formingbindingemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does Ethylene/Va Copolymer have?

CAS number
24937-78-8
CosIng reference
33867

Which products contain Ethylene/Va Copolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Ethylene/Va Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 32 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often makeup, nail makeup and nail polishes.

  • Makeup4
  • Nail makeup3
  • Nail polishes3
  • Eye makeup2

Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 10 · Germany 9 · Norway 8 · Netherlands 7.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Ethylene/Va 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’.

  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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