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Calcium Sodium Borosilicate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Calcium Sodium Borosilicate is a cosmetic ingredient that adds volume to a powder. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 107 products, most often lipsticks.

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What does Calcium Sodium Borosilicate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate adds volume to a powder. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: bulking.

bulking

What is Calcium Sodium Borosilicate?

Calcium Sodium Borosilicate is a glass consisting essentially of calcium and sodium borosilicates.

CosIng reference
55187

Which products contain Calcium Sodium Borosilicate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Calcium Sodium Borosilicate in the ingredient lists of 107 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lipsticks, lip makeup and eye makeup.

  • Lipsticks12
  • Lip makeup11
  • Eye makeup10
  • Makeup9

Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 36 · Netherlands 22 · France 14 · Turkey 12.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Calcium Sodium Borosilicate 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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