Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Methylcellulose in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Methylcellulose is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 9 products, most often toothpastes.
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What does Methylcellulose do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Methylcellulose 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, emulsion stabilising and stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Methylcellulose have?
- CAS number
- 9004-67-5
- CosIng reference
- 35332
Which products contain Methylcellulose?
Open Beauty Facts finds Methylcellulose in the ingredient lists of 9 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes.
Products with it, by country of sale: Spain 3 · France 2 · Norway 2 · Germany 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Methylcellulose 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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