Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 44 products, most often anti-wrinkle creams.

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What does Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and keeps a powder free-flowing. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming, anticaking, emulsion stabilising and opacifying.

viscosity controllingfilm forminganticakingemulsion stabilisingopacifying

What is Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer?

Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer is a copolymer of sodium acrylate and sodium acryloyldimethyl taurate monomers.

CosIng reference
85127

Which products contain Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 44 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often anti-wrinkle creams, facial creams and night creams.

  • Anti-wrinkle creams7
  • Facial creams6
  • Night creams4
  • Anti-ageing face care4
  • Face care4
  • Day creams3

Products with it, by country of sale: France 17 · United States 5 · Germany 4 · Australia 3.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate 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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