Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Clay in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Clay is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the skin in good condition. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 9 products, most often skincare.
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What does Clay do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Clay keeps the skin in good condition, makes the product thicker or thinner and absorbs water or oil. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: skin conditioning, viscosity controlling, absorbent, binding and bulking.
What is Clay?
Clay is a group of phyllosilicate minerals produced by the chemical and physical weathering of rock. It consists chiefly of varying amounts of hydrated silica and alumina, and is characterized by a particle size of less than 2 micrometers.
- CosIng reference
- 83536
Which products contain Clay?
Open Beauty Facts finds Clay in the ingredient lists of 9 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often skincare, deodorants and roll-on deodorants.
Products with it, by country of sale: Turkey 4 · Türkiye 3 · Switzerland 1 · France 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Clay 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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