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Formic Acid

Our database includes 41 products that contain Formic Acid.

You should know

What it is

Preservative

Explained

Formic Acid is a preservative.

Formic Acid is a rare cosmetic ingredient, with about 0.1% of the products in our database containing it.

What it does:

Preservative

Where it's used

Formic Acid is most often found as ingredient number 36 within an ingredient list.

These are the categories of products that use Formic Acid the most:

CosIng Data

  • CosIng ID: 33949
  • INCI Name: FORMIC ACID
  • EC #:  200-579-1
  • Ph. Eur. Name: acidum formicum
  • All Functions: Preservative
What is CosIng?

CosIng is the European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients.

SkinSort uses CosIng to source some of it's data on ingredient names and functions.