Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Ethylcellulose in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Ethylcellulose is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 18 products, most often lip stains.
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What does Ethylcellulose do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Ethylcellulose makes the product thicker or thinner, leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and holds a powder or a pressed product together. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, film forming and binding.
What other names and numbers does Ethylcellulose have?
- CAS number
- 9004-57-3
- CosIng reference
- 33853
Which products contain Ethylcellulose?
Open Beauty Facts finds Ethylcellulose in the ingredient lists of 18 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip stains, makeup and lip makeup.
Products with it, by country of sale: Türkiye 4 · Germany 3 · United Kingdom 3 · France 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Ethylcellulose 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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