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DIMETHICONE

Not on the EU Annex III list

DIMETHICONE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Antifoaming, Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting, with CAS number 63148-62-9 / 9006-65-9 / 9016-00-6 and EC number - /. DIMETHICONE is the INCI name of the substance known as dimeticone (INN), also recorded as dimeticonum (Ph. Eur.). In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 21 product labels, reaching position 2 on Revlon Illuminance Serum Concealer Light Medium 5mL. Fulton (1989) grades it 1 on the 0–5 comedogenicity scale; that grade is transcribed as-is and is the only rating source used.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
63148-62-9 / 9006-65-9 / 9016-00-6
EC NUMBER
- /
COSING FUNCTIONS
Antifoaming, Skin Conditioning - Emollient, Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting
COMEDOGENIC RATING (FULTON 1989)
1 / 5
OTHER NAMES (COSING)
dimeticone (INN)
dimeticonum (Ph. Eur.)

Sample products containing DIMETHICONE

Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.

PRODUCT LABEL POSITION
Aqua Thermal - Baume Éveil Regard #3
Sublime Sun Lait protecteur anti-dessèchement FPS 30 #21
UltraLift Nuit Soin anti-rides raffermissant #3
Shampooing antipelliculaire + après-shampooing 2 in 1 anti-chute #7
Shampooing antipelliculaire Instant Dry Scalp Care #4
Classic Clean #13
Gel mani detergente con antibatterico 71% alcool #7
Oil Care Nährpflege #3

Query DIMETHICONE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "DIMETHICONE"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])

The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.

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