Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Silica Dimethyl Silylate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Silica Dimethyl Silylate is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 216 products, most often nail polishes.
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What does Silica Dimethyl Silylate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Silica Dimethyl Silylate softens and smooths the skin, makes the product thicker or thinner, and keeps a powder free-flowing. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, viscosity controlling, anticaking, antifoaming and emulsion stabilising.
What other names and numbers does Silica Dimethyl Silylate have?
- CAS number
- 68611-44-9
- EC number
- 271-893-4
- CosIng reference
- 37684
Which products contain Silica Dimethyl Silylate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Silica Dimethyl Silylate in the ingredient lists of 216 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often nail polishes and sunscreen.
Products with it, by country of sale: Norway 50 · Turkey 43 · France 35 · Türkiye 28.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Silica Dimethyl Silylate 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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