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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 70 products, most often face care.

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What does Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 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.

viscosity controllingemulsion stabilising

What is Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6?

Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 is a copolymer of ammonium acryloyldimethyltaurate, dimethylacrylamide, lauryl methacrylate and laureth-4 methacrylate, crosslinked with trimethylolpropane triacrylate.

CosIng reference
87557

Which products contain Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6?

Open Beauty Facts finds Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 in the ingredient lists of 70 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care, facial creams and sunscreen.

  • Face care6
  • Facial creams4
  • Sunscreen4

Products with it, by country of sale: France 17 · United States 8 · Australia 8 · Singapore 7.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 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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