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INCI ingredient

Cetyl Alcohol Dimethicone

Also listed as: Cetyl Alcohol

Cetyl Alcohol Dimethicone appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureplant or animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeYesthis is a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

If a product lists Cetyl Alcohol Dimethicone, its silicone-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Cetyl Alcohol Dimethicone appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.

On the label it counts as silicone, which is why a product that lists it cannot be silicone-free.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: skin conditioning - emollient, surfactant - emulsifying, emulsion stabilising, surfactant - foam boosting, fragrance, opacifying, surfactant - cleansing, viscosity controlling

Products with Cetyl Alcohol Dimethicone

in 2 products

Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • skin conditioning - emollient
  • surfactant - emulsifying
  • emulsion stabilising
  • surfactant - foam boosting
  • fragrance
  • opacifying
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • viscosity controlling
  • skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
  • surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
  • emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
  • surfactant - foam boosting: Increasing foaming capacity and/or stabilize foams in general.

CAS 36653-82-4 · EC 253-149-0

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

Silicone-free instead

Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake