Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Magnesium Nitrate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Magnesium Nitrate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 347 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Magnesium Nitrate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Magnesium Nitrate makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: hair conditioning.

hair conditioning

What other names and numbers does Magnesium Nitrate have?

CAS number
10377-60-3
EC number
233-826-7
CosIng reference
35108

Which products contain Magnesium Nitrate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Magnesium Nitrate in the ingredient lists of 347 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, hair care and anti-dandruff shampoos.

  • Shampoos92
  • Hair care58
  • Anti-dandruff shampoos45
  • Hair conditioners27

Products with it, by country of sale: France 123 · Spain 35 · Australia 27 · Turkey 25.

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