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INCI ingredient

Magnesium Silicate

Magnesium Silicate appears on 37 ingredient lists in our database, most often in bar soaps.

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 Silicate appears on 37 ingredient lists in our database, most often in bar soaps.

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: absorbent, anticaking, bulking, opacifying, viscosity controlling

Products with Magnesium Silicate

in 37 products

Showing 24 of 37 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • absorbent
  • anticaking
  • bulking
  • opacifying
  • viscosity controlling
  • absorbent: Taking up water- and/or oil-soluble (dissolved or finely dispersed) substances.
  • anticaking: Preventing agglomeration of particulate solids into lumps or hard masses (cohesive cake), thus allowing free flow of particles.
  • bulking: Non-reactive (chemically inert), solid ingredients that dilute other solids and/or increase the volume of cosmetic products.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.

CAS 1343-88-0 · EC 215-681-1

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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