Compoatlas

BARIUM SULFATE

Official label name (INCIInternational name of cosmetic ingredients: the one printed on the pack. name, EU glossary of cosmetic ingredient names), No 3041

BARIUM SULFATE: Colorant allowed under conditions (Annex IV, entry 122), under Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. Annexes of the Regulation consulted on 21 October 2026.

Who it concerns

What official classifications and rules say for each group. A classification describes the hazard of the pure substance, not the risk of a product that contains it, which depends on the dose and the exposure.

Prohibition or serious classificationThe text prohibits the substance for this use, or ranks it among the most serious hazards (known or presumed carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic, identified endocrine disruptor).Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

  • Pregnancy and breastfeeding

    No classification harmonised by the European Union covers reproduction, the unborn child or breastfeeding for this substance. This does not mean it has been judged to have no effect during pregnancy.

  • Babies and children

    The Cosmetics Regulation sets no age-related condition for this ingredient.

  • Skin, eyes and allergies

    No official classification for sensitisation, irritation or eye damage, and no obligation to label it as an allergen.

  • Environment

    No official classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment and no assessment as an endocrine disruptor for the environment.

  • Read on the label

    The Cosmetics Regulation requires no warning to be printed for this ingredient.

In plain words

What it is used for

Functions declared by manufacturers:

Colorant: colours cosmetics and/or imparts colour to the skin and/or its appendages.

Opacifying: reduces transparency or translucency of cosmetics.

What the rules say

An ingredient can be used as a colorant only if it appears on the list of Annex IV. BARIUM SULFATE is on it, with no maximum concentration or restriction of use in this entry.

The text of the annexes

Colorant allowed under conditions

This entry covers the same substance as BARIUM SULFATE (same CAS number in the CosIng inventory): its conditions apply.

Entry
Annex IV, No 122
Substance
Barium sulfate
Glossary names
CI 77120
CAS
7727-43-7
EC
231-784-4

What has changed, and what will change

Dates of the texts that cover this ingredient. A text date may cover several substances: the details of each entry are below.

  1. Annex IV, entry 122: introduced or replaced by Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009

  2. Annex IV, entry 122: applies from this date

Identity

CosIng identifier
32059
CAS (according to CosIng)
7727-43-7
EC (according to CosIng)
231-784-4
Declared functions
Colorant, Opacifying

The CAS number cited by CosIng also covers 1 other INCI name: it designates a family of substances, not this ingredient alone.

Elsewhere in the world

Information on other jurisdictions, with no effect on sale in France. What is covered, and what is not yet.

Comparison between countries

Most restrictive status in each country, and the maximum concentration cited. The details and the source of each rule follow.

CountryRuleMaximum concentration cited
European UnionColorant allowed under conditionsnot cited
United KingdomColorant allowed under conditionsnot cited
SwitzerlandEU Regulation appliesnot cited
United States (federal)No federal rule recordednot cited
JapanNo entry in the lists recordednot cited
South KoreaAllowed colorantnot cited
ChinaNo entry in the lists recordednot cited
AustraliaNo entry in the lists recordednot cited
BrazilNo entry in the lists recordednot cited

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

  • Colorant allowed under conditions (Annex IV)

Same entries as in the European Union. Conditions (concentrations, warnings) may differ: they are not compared here.

Switzerland

Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 applies in Switzerland (Article 54 of the Ordinance on Foodstuffs and Utility Articles).

United States, federal rules

None of the integrated sections of the federal code (21 CFR 700.11 to 700.27 and 250.250) targets this name. The FDA does not publish a list of allowed ingredients.

South Korea

  • Allowed colorant: 바륨설페이트 (Barium Sulfate) CI 77120 (Barium Sulfate)

    색소 고시 별표 1 (allowed colorants), entry 68, page 4.

Recorded cosmetics that contain it

14 recorded products list it, according to Open Beauty Facts contributors. Records are dated: the formula may have changed. See the list (in French).

Glossary: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1175. Page updated on 21 October 2026.