INCI ingredient

Silicone Quaternium-17

Silicone Quaternium-17 appears on 4 ingredient lists in our database, most often in skin cares.

What it triggers

If a product lists Silicone Quaternium-17, its silicone-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

Silicone Quaternium-17 appears on 4 ingredient lists in our database, most often in skin cares.

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: surfactant - emulsifying, hair conditioning, surfactant - cleansing

in 4 products

Showing 4 of 4 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

Functions listed by CosIng

surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
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.
surfactant - cleansing: Wetting body surfaces, emulsifying or solubilizing oils, and suspending soil (generally, such ingredients contribute to the foaming and lathering properties of cleansing products).

CAS 519142-86-0

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.

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