Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Magnesium Nitrate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Magnesium Nitrate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 347 products, most often shampoos.
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What does Magnesium Nitrate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Magnesium Nitrate makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: hair conditioning.
What other names and numbers does Magnesium Nitrate have?
- CAS number
- 10377-60-3
- EC number
- 233-826-7
- CosIng reference
- 35108
Which products contain Magnesium Nitrate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Magnesium Nitrate in the ingredient lists of 347 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, hair care and anti-dandruff shampoos.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 123 · Spain 35 · Australia 27 · Turkey 25.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Magnesium Nitrate 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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