Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 25 products, most often body care.
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What does Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane holds water in the skin or the product, softens and smooths the skin, and lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant, emollient, surfactant, skin conditioning, hair conditioning, foam boosting and hydrotrope.
What is Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane?
Bis-Peg-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane is a dimethyl silane ethoxylated methyl diether containing an average of 36 moles of ethylene oxide.
- CosIng reference
- 54713
Which products contain Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane?
Open Beauty Facts finds Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane in the ingredient lists of 25 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body care, body milks and skincare.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 5 · Turkey 5 · France 4 · Spain 4.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Bis-PEG-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane turns up, not how much of the market it is.
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Sources
The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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