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INCI ingredient

Dimethicone Crosspolymer

Dimethicone Crosspolymer appears on 94 ingredient lists in our database, most often in lip makeups.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno 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 Dimethicone Crosspolymer, its silicone-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Dimethicone Crosspolymer appears on 94 ingredient lists in our database, most often in lip makeups.

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: emulsion stabilising, hair fixing, viscosity controlling

Products with Dimethicone Crosspolymer

in 94 products

Showing 24 of 94 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • emulsion stabilising
  • hair fixing
  • viscosity controlling
  • emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
  • hair fixing: Permitting physical control of hair style.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
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