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INCI ingredient

Phenyl Trimethicone

Phenyl Trimethicone appears on 104 ingredient lists in our database, most often in eye makeups.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
  • 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 Phenyl Trimethicone, its silicone-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Phenyl Trimethicone appears on 104 ingredient lists in our database, most often in eye 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: antifoaming, hair conditioning, skin conditioning - occlusive

Products with Phenyl Trimethicone

in 104 products

Showing 24 of 104 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antifoaming
  • hair conditioning
  • skin conditioning - occlusive
  • antifoaming: Suppressing foam during manufacturing or reducing the tendency of finished products to generate foam.
  • hair conditioning: Enhancing the appearance and feel of hair. Leaving the hair easy to comb, supple, soft and shiny and/or imparting volume, lightness, gloss, texture, etc.
  • skin conditioning - occlusive: Retarding the evaporation of water from the skin surface. Occlusives are generally lipids which tend to remain on the skin surface and thus increase the water content of skin.

CAS 195868-36-1/ 70131-69-0/ 2116-84-9 · EC -/ -/ 218-320-6

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