Micro - Crystalline Cellulose
Also listed as: Microcrystalline Cellulose
Micro - Crystalline Cellulose appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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
Micro - Crystalline Cellulose appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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: abrasive, absorbent, anticaking, bulking, emulsion stabilising, opacifying, light stabilizer, viscosity controlling
Products with Micro - Crystalline Cellulose
in 3 products
- no photoNivea Kids Sensitive Protect SprayNivea · sunscreen
- no photoNivea sun kids protect & playNivea · sunscreen
- no photoNivea protector solarNivea · sunscreen
Showing 3 of 3 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- abrasive
- absorbent
- anticaking
- bulking
- emulsion stabilising
- opacifying
- light stabilizer
- viscosity controlling
- abrasive: Removing unwanted tissue or foreign materials from various body surfaces, including mechanical tooth cleaning and/or gloss improvement.
- 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.
CAS 9004-34-6 · EC 232-674-9
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.