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Is titanium dioxide banned or restricted in cosmetics?

Q: What does EWG Skin Deep say about titanium dioxide?

EWG Skin Deep scores titanium dioxide 1 out of 10 with fair data, and lists use restrictions as none listed. Read 23 October 2026.

Restricted, not banned: the EU permits titanium dioxide within limits (Annex III, entry 321; Annex VI, entry 27; Annex VI, entry 27a), the lowest cap printed being 1.1% and the highest 25%, depending on the product. California, the EU and FDA's named list, read 23 October 2026, with EWG Skin Deep's score.

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Read on 23 October 2026, titanium dioxide is restricted by the EU (Annex III and Annex VI) and not listed in California; EWG Skin Deep scores it 1 out of 10.

From the California statute, the EU Cosmetics Regulation as consolidated on 1 May 2026, FDA’s page and EWG’s ingredient page, read 23 October 2026. We report what each says; we do not rate the ingredient.

Is titanium dioxide banned in cosmetics?

Restricted, not banned: the EU permits titanium dioxide within limits (Annex III, entry 321; Annex VI, entry 27; Annex VI, entry 27a), the lowest cap printed being 1.1% and the highest 25%, depending on the product. California does not list it. FDA's named list does not include it. EWG Skin Deep scores it 1 out of 10 (data: fair).

Titanium dioxide: where it standsread 23 October 2026

Filled red marks a ban, blue a restriction, pale an ingredient that list does not name. FDA's page names 11 entries and none is titanium dioxide. The EWG row marks its score; a bar shows a range.

What are the EU limits for titanium dioxide?

The EU does not ban titanium dioxide; it caps it by product type. The caps below are the annex cells as printed on the EUR-Lex consolidated text of 1 May 2026, with the decimal comma written as a point.

Titanium dioxide: EU capspercent; consolidated 1 May 2026

Each bar is one figure printed in an annex entry (#321 means entry 321); where an entry prints several, the table below shows which product type each applies to.

Titanium dioxide in the EU Cosmetics Regulation, found by CAS number 13463-67-7
Where	Annex	Cap, threshold and product type	Condition
Annex III, entry 321 as printed: Titanium dioxide in powder form containing 1 % or more of particles with aerodynamic diame	Restricted substances	(a) 25 %; (b) 1.4 % for general consumers, and 1.1 % for professional use. (a) face products in loose powder form (b) hair aerosol spray products (c) other products	(a) (b) Only in the pigmentary form (c) Not to be used in applications that may lead to exposure of the end-user’s lungs by inhalation
Annex VI, entry 27 as printed: Titanium dioxide (2)	Permitted UV filters	25 % (4) all products	Titanium dioxide in powder form containing 1 % or more of particles with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm, to be used in compliance with Annex III, No 321. For the product types under letter (c) of column (f) in Annex III, No 321, the maximum concentration in ready for use preparation provided in column (g) of this entry applies.
Annex VI, entry 27a as printed: Titanium dioxide (2)	Permitted UV filters	25 % (4) all products	Not to be used in applications that may lead to exposure of the end-user’s lungs by inhalation. Only nanomaterials having the following characteristics are allowed: - purity ≥ 99 %, - rutile form, or rutile with up to 5 % anatase, with crystalline structure and physical appearance as clusters of spherical, needle, or lanceolate shapes, - median particle size based on number size distribution ≥ 30 nm, - aspect ratio f

Is titanium dioxide on California's banned list?

No. It is on neither list (a), in force since 1 January 2025, nor list (b), in force from 1 January 2027, of California's Health and Safety Code section 108980.

What does EWG Skin Deep say about titanium dioxide?

EWG’s page gives titanium dioxide a hazard score of 1 out of 10 with fair data. Its concerns line reads, in part: Enhanced skin absorption, Non-reproductive organ system toxicity (low_moderate), and Occupational hazards (moderate). The use-restrictions concern is none listed, although the EU restricts it. The score is a hazard score on EWG's own scale; it is not a regulatory status.

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Method: California's section 108980 and the EU's annexes were read in Chrome on 23 October 2026; EU lookups are by CAS number (13463-67-7) across Annexes II, III, V and VI; EWG's page was kept only if its name matched exactly; the PubChem link is the compound the CAS number resolves to. Statutes change and EWG revises pages, nothing here is a safety verdict, and an ingredient that is not on a list is not endorsed.