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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer is a cosmetic ingredient that leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 11 products, most often face makeup.

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What does Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer leaves a thin film on skin, hair or nails and makes a clear product cloudy. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: film forming and opacifying.

film formingopacifying

What is Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer?

Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer is a copolymer of dimethicone crosslinked with a mixture of PEG-10 and PEG-15 diallyl ethers.

CosIng reference
55785

Which products contain Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer?

Open Beauty Facts finds Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer in the ingredient lists of 11 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face makeup, foundations and makeup.

  • Face makeup2
  • Foundations1
  • Makeup1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 3 · Spain 3 · Canada 1 · United States 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Dimethicone/PEG-10/15 Crosspolymer 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’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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