Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Cellulose in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Cellulose is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 170 products, most often foundations.
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What does Cellulose do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Cellulose makes the product thicker or thinner, absorbs water or oil and adds volume to a powder. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, absorbent, bulking and opacifying.
What other names and numbers does Cellulose have?
- CAS number
- 9004-34-6
- EC number
- 232-674-9
- CosIng reference
- 32480
Which products contain Cellulose?
Open Beauty Facts finds Cellulose in the ingredient lists of 170 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often foundations, face makeup and face care.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 44 · Germany 31 · France 30 · Norway 12.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cellulose 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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