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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Titanium Dioxide in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Titanium Dioxide is a cosmetic ingredient that filters UV light to protect the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 1,267 products, most often face makeup.

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What does Titanium Dioxide do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Titanium Dioxide filters UV light to protect the skin, makes a clear product cloudy and protects the product from UV light. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: UV filter, opacifying and UV absorber.

UV filteropacifyingUV absorber

What other names and numbers does Titanium Dioxide have?

CAS number
13463-67-7
EC number
236-675-5
CosIng reference
38617

Which products contain Titanium Dioxide?

Open Beauty Facts finds Titanium Dioxide in the ingredient lists of 1,267 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup and sunscreen.

  • Face makeup85
  • Sunscreen71

Products with it, by country of sale: France 265 · United States 231 · Norway 132 · Australia 115.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Titanium Dioxide turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsUV filters

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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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