Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Microcrystalline Wax in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Microcrystalline Wax is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 138 products, most often lip balms.
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What does Microcrystalline Wax do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Microcrystalline Wax makes the product thicker or thinner, holds a powder or a pressed product together and adds volume to a powder. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, binding, bulking and emulsion stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Microcrystalline Wax have?
- CAS number
- 63231-60-7
- EC number
- 264-038-1 (I)
- CosIng reference
- 92425
Which products contain Microcrystalline Wax?
Open Beauty Facts finds Microcrystalline Wax in the ingredient lists of 138 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often lip balms, lipsticks and face care.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 23 · Norway 21 · Australia 14 · Netherlands 12.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Microcrystalline Wax 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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