Does NYX Professional Makeup Use Microplastics?
The short answer
Roughly half of the NYX Professional Makeup products we could analyse listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer. Of the 11 NYX Professional Makeup products on Open Beauty Facts with a readable ingredient list, 6 listed at least one flagged synthetic polymer — 55%. The one that came up most was Dimethicone, in 3 of them.
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What this is. Ingredient-label data from Open Beauty Facts (snapshot 2026-07-31), not laboratory testing. Coverage is crowdsourced, partial and Europe-weighted, so this is 11 of the 26 NYX Professional Makeup entries in that database, and US formulations often differ. A flagged ingredient is not automatically harmful — a gel thickener and a solid microbead are both synthetic polymers and are not the same risk.
What comes up most in NYX Professional Makeup ingredient lists
| Ingredient | Products | Why it's flagged |
|---|---|---|
| Dimethicone | 3 of 11 | Silicone |
| Dimethicone Crosspolymer | 2 of 11 | Silicone |
| Silica Dimethyl Silylate | 2 of 11 | Silicone |
| Trimethylsiloxysilicate | 1 of 11 | Silicone |
| Nylon-12 | 1 of 11 | Microplastic polymer |
| PEG (Polyethylene Glycol) | 1 of 11 | PEG / glycol |
| PPG (Polypropylene Glycol) | 1 of 11 | PEG / glycol |
| Dimethiconol | 1 of 11 | Silicone |
Example products
Real entries from Open Beauty Facts, showing what the label lists.
NYX Professional Makeup Lingerie XXL 05 Stripd Down Lippenstift
4 flagged ingredients
Can't stop, won't stop
3 flagged ingredients
TOTAL CONTROL
3 flagged ingredients
Product images from Open Beauty Facts contributors, licensed CC BY-SA. Ingredient data under ODbL.
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