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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Colophonium in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Colophonium is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 10 products, most often nail makeup.

By Bravoora teamUpdated Sources checked 2 sourcesHow we check

What does Colophonium do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Colophonium makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming, binding and depilatory.

viscosity controllingfilm formingbindingdepilatory

What is Colophonium?

Rosin is the residue left after distilling off the volatile oil from the oleoresin obtained from Pinus palustris and other species of Pinaceae.

CAS number
8050-09-7
EC number
232-475-7
CosIng reference
33012

Which products contain Colophonium?

Open Beauty Facts finds Colophonium in the ingredient lists of 10 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often nail makeup and nail polishes.

  • Nail makeup2
  • Nail polishes2

Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 7 · Canada 1 · France 1 · Brazil 1.

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