Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Wax in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Wax is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 18 products, most often lip balms.
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What does Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Wax do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Wax makes the product thicker or thinner, holds a powder or a pressed product together and keeps an emulsion from separating. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, binding and emulsion stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Wax have?
- CAS number
- 64742-60-5, 92045-76-6
- EC number
- 265-163-4 (I), 295-458-3 (I)
- CosIng reference
- 89855
Which products contain Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Wax?
Open Beauty Facts finds Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Wax in the ingredient lists of 18 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip balms, lip makeup and nail makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: Spain 7 · France 6 · Netherlands 2 · United States 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Wax 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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