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INCI ingredient

Magnesium Stearate

Also listed as: Vegetable Magnesium Stearate, Magnésium Stearate, Magnesium Stearate)

Magnesium Stearate appears on 120 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureplant or 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 Stearate appears on 120 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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: anticaking, bulking, colorant, moisturising

Products with Magnesium Stearate

in 120 products

Showing 24 of 120 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • anticaking
  • bulking
  • colorant
  • moisturising
  • 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.
  • colorant: Exclusively or mainly intended to colour the cosmetic product, the body as a whole or certain parts thereof, by absorption or reflection of visible light; (precursors of oxidative hair colorants shall be deemed colorants). All authorised colorants are substances in the positive list of Annex IV to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.
  • moisturising: Increasing the water content of the skin and keeping it soft and smooth.

CAS 557-04-0 · EC 209-150-3

EU regulation

Listed in Annex IV (ref. 150) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. IV/150

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

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