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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Vp/Eicosene Copolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Vp/Eicosene Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 82 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Vp/Eicosene Copolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Vp/Eicosene Copolymer makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming and binding.

viscosity controllingfilm formingbinding

What other names and numbers does Vp/Eicosene Copolymer have?

CAS number
28211-18-9
CosIng reference
60156

Which products contain Vp/Eicosene Copolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Vp/Eicosene Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 82 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen, eye makeup and mascara.

  • Sunscreen31
  • Eye makeup5
  • Mascara5

Products with it, by country of sale: Spain 16 · France 14 · Sweden 13 · Netherlands 8.

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