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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 18 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming and opacifying.

viscosity controllingfilm formingopacifying

What other names and numbers does Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer have?

CAS number
9010-92-8
CosIng reference
80106

Which products contain Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 18 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, hair care and bath and shower.

  • Shampoos7
  • Hair care4
  • Bath and shower2
  • Soaps2
  • Shampoos for colored hair1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 11 · Australia 5 · Germany 5 · Belgium 1.

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