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Benzoic Acid

Preservative Permitted preservative
CAS
65-85-0 Opens the substance record on PubChem
Status
Permitted preservative · Annex V, entry 1
Conditions
Permitted preservative.
In brief
Benzoic acid is an organic acid found naturally in some plants and also made synthetically. In cosmetics it is used as a preservative, helping to control the growth of microbes in a product.
Appears in
1 catalogue product

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