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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Vp/Hexadecene Copolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 86 products, most often sunscreen.

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What does Vp/Hexadecene Copolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Vp/Hexadecene 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, binding and hair fixing.

viscosity controllingfilm formingbindinghair fixing

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

CAS number
32440-50-9
CosIng reference
60157

Which products contain Vp/Hexadecene Copolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Vp/Hexadecene Copolymer in the ingredient lists of 86 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often sunscreen and lip balms.

  • Sunscreen34
  • Lip balms4

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 24 · France 20 · United States 6 · Turkey 5.

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