Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Diatomaceous Earth in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Diatomaceous Earth is a cosmetic ingredient that scrubs or polishes. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 30 products, most often deodorants.
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What does Diatomaceous Earth do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Diatomaceous Earth scrubs or polishes, keeps a powder free-flowing and adds volume to a powder. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: abrasive, anticaking, bulking and opacifying.
What is Diatomaceous Earth?
Diatomaceous Earth is a mineral material consisting chiefly of the siliceous frustules and fragments of various species of diatoms.
- CAS number
- 61790-53-2
- EC number
- 231-545-4
- CosIng reference
- 84553
Which products contain Diatomaceous Earth?
Open Beauty Facts finds Diatomaceous Earth in the ingredient lists of 30 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often deodorants, makeup and toothpastes.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 12 · United States 4 · Germany 3 · Turkey 3.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Diatomaceous Earth 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’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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