Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Calcium Silicate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Calcium Silicate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 23 products, most often deodorants.

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What does Calcium Silicate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Calcium Silicate makes the product thicker or thinner, absorbs water or oil and adds volume to a powder. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, absorbent, bulking, opacifying and pearlescent.

viscosity controllingabsorbentbulkingopacifyingpearlescent

What other names and numbers does Calcium Silicate have?

CAS number
1344-95-2
EC number
215-710-8
CosIng reference
32345

Which products contain Calcium Silicate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Calcium Silicate in the ingredient lists of 23 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, roll-on deodorants and deodorant sticks.

  • Deodorants5
  • Roll-on deodorants4
  • Deodorant sticks1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 7 · Norway 6 · Morocco 4 · Spain 3.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Calcium Silicate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

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Sources

The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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