Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Sodium Metasilicate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Sodium Metasilicate is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the pack corroding. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 19 products, most often shaving.
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What does Sodium Metasilicate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Sodium Metasilicate stops the pack corroding, keeps the product's acidity steady and binds metals in water so the product stays stable. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: anticorrosive, buffering and chelating.
What other names and numbers does Sodium Metasilicate have?
- CAS number
- 6834-92-0
- EC number
- 229-912-9
- CosIng reference
- 79774
Which products contain Sodium Metasilicate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Metasilicate in the ingredient lists of 19 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shaving, shaving soaps and hair care.
Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 7 · Australia 7 · Germany 3 · Canada 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Metasilicate 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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