Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Ethyl Trisiloxane in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Ethyl Trisiloxane is a cosmetic ingredient that keeps the skin in good condition. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 13 products, most often hair care.

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What does Ethyl Trisiloxane do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Ethyl Trisiloxane keeps the skin in good condition and makes the product thicker or thinner. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: skin conditioning and viscosity controlling.

skin conditioningviscosity controlling

What other names and numbers does Ethyl Trisiloxane have?

CAS number
17861-60-8
CosIng reference
56068

Which products contain Ethyl Trisiloxane?

Open Beauty Facts finds Ethyl Trisiloxane in the ingredient lists of 13 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often hair care, hair dyes and hair sprays.

  • Hair care2
  • Hair dyes1
  • Hair sprays1

Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 6 · France 2 · Turkey 2 · Türkiye 2.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Ethyl Trisiloxane 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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