Sodium Polyacrylate
- Products with the EWG VERIFIED mark have met the program’s impurity and use restrictions based on EWG's review of the company's data.
Other Concerns
Use restrictions (low), Non-reproductive organ system toxicity (moderate), Multiple, additive exposure sources (low), and Contamination concerns (high)SYNONYMS
Restricted
Restricted: EWG VERIFIED products cannot contain this ingredient without adequate substantiation
Sodium Polyacrylate is a sodium salt of Polyacrylic Acid (q.v.).
Common concerns
See how this product scores for common concerns.
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LOWCancer
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LOWAllergies & Immunotoxicity
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LOWDevelopmental and Reproductive Toxicity
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LOWUse Restrictions
Ingredient concerns
- CONCERNS
- DATA SOURCES
Products with this Ingredient
facial moisturizer/treatment | 116 products |
mask | 102 products |
moisturizer | 73 products |
recreational sunscreen | 60 products |
around-eye cream | 45 products |
serums & essences | 43 products |
hand cream | 40 products |
concealer | 25 products |
foundation | 24 products |
brow liner | 21 products |
daily use with SPF | 17 products |
eye liner | 15 products |
facial cleanser | 14 products |
makeup primer | 14 products |
hair styling aide | 12 products |
mascara | 9 products |
shampoo | 8 products |
styling gel/lotion | 8 products |
anti-aging | 7 products |
exfoliant/scrub | 7 products |
hair treatment/serum | 6 products |
eye shadow | 6 products |
conditioner | 6 products |
body firming lotion | 5 products |
blush | 5 products |
toners/astringents | 5 products |
fragrance for men | 4 products |
after shave | 4 products |
foot moisturizer | 4 products |
nail treatment | 3 products |
after sun product | 2 products |
baby lotion | 2 products |
beard care | 2 products |
baby sunscreen | 2 products |
pore strips | 2 products |
bath oil/salts/soak | 1 products |
skin fading/lightener | 1 products |
makeup remover | 1 products |
setting powder/spray | 1 products |
body wash/cleanser | 1 products |
1 products | |
lipstick | 1 products |
hand sanitizer | 1 products |
damaged skin treatment | 1 products |
muscle/joint soreness | 1 products |
styling mousse/foam | 1 products |
eyelash glue | 1 products |
hair color and bleaching | 1 products |
lip plumper | 1 products |
Contamination concerns
Chemical |
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ACRYLIC ACID |
Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)
CONCERN | REFERENCE |
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Classified as expected to be toxic or harmful | Environment Canada Domestic Substance List |
Classified as medium human health priority | Environment Canada Domestic Substance List |
Multiple, additive exposure sources
CONCERN | REFERENCE |
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Used in food or as an additive with limited or no toxicity information available | FDA Everything Added to Food |
Designated as safe for general or specific, limited use in food | FDA Food Additive Status |
Use restrictions
CONCERN | REFERENCE |
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Determined safe for use in cosmetics, subject to concentration or use limitations - Safe for use in cosmetics with some qualifications | Cosmetic Ingredient Review Assessments |
Data gaps
CONCERN | REFERENCE |
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Considered safe based on assumption of low absorption | Cosmetic Ingredient Review Assessments |
1640 studies in PubMed science library may include information on the toxicity of this chemical | NLM PubMed |
Ecotoxicology
CONCERN | REFERENCE |
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Not suspected to be an environmental toxin | Environment Canada Domestic Substance List |
Persistence and bioaccumulation
CONCERN | REFERENCE |
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Not suspected to be bioaccumulative | Environment Canada Domestic Substance List |
- EC (Environment Canada). 2008. Domestic Substances List Categorization. Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) Environmental Registry.
- FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). 2008. EAFUS [Everything Added to Food]: A Food Additive Database. FDA Office of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
- FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) 2006. Food Additive Status List. Downloaded from http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Edms/opa-appa.html, Oct 16, 2006.
- CIR (Cosmetic Ingredient Review). 2006. CIR Compendium, containing abstracts, discussions, and conclusions of CIR cosmetic ingredient safety assessments. Washington DC.
- NLM (National Library of Medicine). 2012. PubMed online scientific bibliography data. http://www.pubmed.gov.
Understanding scores
Cosmetics and personal care products are not required to be tested for safety before being allowed on the market. The Skin Deep® scoring system was designed to help the public understand whether a product is safe to use or whether it contains ingredients of concern.
Every product and ingredient in Skin Deep gets a two-part score – one for hazard and one for data availability. The safest products score well by both measures, with a low hazard rating and a fair or better data availability rating.
HOW WE DETERMINE SCORESHazard score
The Skin Deep ingredient hazard score, from 1 to 10, reflects known and suspected hazards linked to the ingredients. The EWG VERIFIED® mark means a product meets EWG’s strictest criteria for transparency and health.
Data availability
The Skin Deep data availability rating reflects the number of scientific studies about the product or ingredient in the published scientific literature.