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INCI ingredient

Tetrasiloxane

Tetrasiloxane appears on 7 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.

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 Tetrasiloxane, its silicone-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Tetrasiloxane appears on 7 ingredient lists in our database, most often in body moisturizers.

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

Products with Tetrasiloxane

in 7 products

Showing 7 of 7 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antifoaming
  • antifoaming: Suppressing foam during manufacturing or reducing the tendency of finished products to generate foam.

CAS 141-62-8 · EC 205-491-7

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