Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Silicate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Silicate is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the pack corroding. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 61 products, most often toothpastes.

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What does Sodium Silicate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Silicate stops the pack corroding and keeps the product's acidity steady. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: anticorrosive and buffering.

anticorrosivebuffering

What other names and numbers does Sodium Silicate have?

CAS number
1344-09-8
EC number
215-687-4
CosIng reference
38057

Which products contain Sodium Silicate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Silicate in the ingredient lists of 61 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and shaving.

  • Toothpastes11
  • Shaving3

Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 16 · France 12 · Germany 8 · India 7.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Silicate 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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