Which microplastic ingredients does Caudalie use most?

Acrylates Crosspolymer (in 7 of 21), Dimethicone (in 4 of 21), Carbomer (in 4 of 21), Butylphenyl Methylpropional (Lilial) (in 4 of 21), Polyacrylamide (in 3 of 21).

Does Caudalie Use Microplastics?

Last updated: July 30, 2026

The short answer

Most Caudalie products we could analyse listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer. Of the 21 Caudalie products on Open Beauty Facts with a readable ingredient list, 16 listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer — 76%. The one that came up most was Acrylates Crosspolymer, in 7 of them.

analysed

with a flag

76%

What this is. Ingredient-label data from Open Beauty Facts (snapshot 2026-07-31), not laboratory testing. Coverage is crowdsourced, partial and Europe-weighted, so this is 21 of the 98 Caudalie entries in that database, and US formulations often differ. A flagged ingredient is not automatically harmful — a gel thickener and a solid microbead are both synthetic polymers and are not the same risk.

What comes up most in Caudalie ingredient lists

Ingredient	Products	Why it's flagged
Acrylates Crosspolymer	7 of 21	Acrylate / vinyl polymer
Dimethicone	4 of 21	Silicone
Carbomer	4 of 21	Acrylate / vinyl polymer
Butylphenyl Methylpropional (Lilial)	4 of 21	Plasticiser / chemical of concern
Polyacrylamide	3 of 21	Acrylate / vinyl polymer
Sodium Acrylates Copolymer	2 of 21	Acrylate / vinyl polymer
Hydrogenated Polyisobutene	2 of 21	Microplastic polymer
Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer	1 of 21	Acrylate / vinyl polymer

Example products

Real entries from Open Beauty Facts, showing what the label lists.

Baume liftant regard Resveratrol [Lift]

4 flagged ingredients

Soin corps nourrissant anti-oxydant

3 flagged ingredients

Soin corps nourrissant Thé des Vignes

3 flagged ingredients

Product images from Open Beauty Facts contributors, licensed CC BY-SA. Ingredient data under ODbL.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Caudalie use microplastics?

Most Caudalie products we could analyse listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer. Of 21 Caudalie products with a readable ingredient list on Open Beauty Facts, 16 listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer (76%). This is label data, not lab testing, and a flagged ingredient is not automatically harmful.

Which ingredients are flagged in Caudalie products?

Most frequently: Acrylates Crosspolymer (7 of 21), Dimethicone (4 of 21), Carbomer (4 of 21), Butylphenyl Methylpropional (Lilial) (4 of 21), Polyacrylamide (3 of 21). Each has its own page explaining what it is and how concerned to be.

Is Caudalie safe to use?

That is not a question label data can answer, and we will not pretend otherwise. This page reports which synthetic polymers appear in ingredient lists. Whether a given product suits you depends on the ingredient, its concentration, the product type, and your own skin and priorities. Use the per-ingredient pages to judge severity rather than treating any flag as a verdict.

How was this measured?

Products were pulled from the Open Beauty Facts API, filtered to those with a usable ingredient list, and every INCI token matched against our flagged ingredient database. Matching is token-level: an ingredient list is split on commas and each token yields at most one ingredient, so "dimethicone" is never also counted as "methicone". Snapshot 2026-07-31.

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