Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Magnesium Myristate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Magnesium Myristate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 16 products, most often makeup.

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What does Magnesium Myristate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Magnesium Myristate makes the product thicker or thinner, keeps a powder free-flowing and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, anticaking and opacifying.

viscosity controllinganticakingopacifying

What other names and numbers does Magnesium Myristate have?

CAS number
4086-70-8
EC number
223-817-6
CosIng reference
35107

Which products contain Magnesium Myristate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Magnesium Myristate in the ingredient lists of 16 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often makeup, face makeup and eye makeup.

  • Makeup3
  • Face makeup2
  • Eye makeup2
  • Eyeshadows2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 5 · Turkey 3 · Türkiye 3 · Germany 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Magnesium Myristate 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’.

  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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