Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Magnesium Trisilicate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 6 products, most often hair removal.

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What does Magnesium Trisilicate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Magnesium Trisilicate makes the product thicker or thinner, scrubs or polishes and absorbs water or oil. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, abrasive, absorbent, anticaking, bulking and opacifying.

viscosity controllingabrasiveabsorbentanticakingbulkingopacifying

What other names and numbers does Magnesium Trisilicate have?

CAS number
14987-04-3
EC number
239-076-7
CosIng reference
35125

Which products contain Magnesium Trisilicate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Magnesium Trisilicate in the ingredient lists of 6 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair removal and anti-perspirants.

  • Hair removal3
  • Anti-perspirants1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 3 · Canada 1 · Germany 1 · United Kingdom 1.

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