Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Synthetic Japan Wax in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Synthetic Japan Wax is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 9 products, most often makeup.

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What does Synthetic Japan Wax do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Synthetic Japan Wax softens and smooths the skin, makes the product thicker or thinner, and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, viscosity controlling, binding and emulsion stabilising.

emollientviscosity controllingbindingemulsion stabilising

What other names and numbers does Synthetic Japan Wax have?

CosIng reference
80521

Which products contain Synthetic Japan Wax?

Open Beauty Facts finds Synthetic Japan Wax in the ingredient lists of 9 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often makeup and lip makeup.

  • Makeup3
  • Lip makeup1

Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 3 · Netherlands 3 · Australia 2 · Turkey 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Synthetic Japan Wax turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsEmollients

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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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