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INCI ingredient

Magnesium Carbonate Hydroxide

Magnesium Carbonate Hydroxide appears on 72 ingredient lists in our database, most often in anti-dandruff shampoos.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Magnesium Carbonate Hydroxide appears on 72 ingredient lists in our database, most often in anti-dandruff shampoos.

It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: binding, buffering, bulking, viscosity controlling

Products with Magnesium Carbonate Hydroxide

in 72 products

Showing 24 of 72 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • binding
  • buffering
  • bulking
  • viscosity controlling
  • binding: Providing adhesive properties during and after compression in cosmetic tablets and/or cakes.
  • buffering: Stabilising the pH of an aqueous medium in a narrow range even if an acid or base is added. Altering and/or maintaining a cosmetic product's pH at the desired level.
  • bulking: Non-reactive (chemically inert), solid ingredients that dilute other solids and/or increase the volume of cosmetic products.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 12125-28-9 · EC 235-192-7

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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