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INCI ingredient

Sodium Metasilicate

Sodium Metasilicate appears on 19 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair dyes.

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

Sodium Metasilicate appears on 19 ingredient lists in our database, most often in hair dyes.

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: anticorrosive, buffering, chelating

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • anticorrosive
  • buffering
  • chelating
  • anticorrosive: Preventing and or inhibiting the corrosion of the packaging material.
  • 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.
  • chelating: Forming complexes with metal ions which could affect the stability and/or appearance of cosmetics.

CAS 6834-92-0 · EC 229-912-9

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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