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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Simethicone in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Simethicone is a cosmetic ingredient that softens and smooths the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 60 products, most often eye makeup.

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What does Simethicone do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Simethicone softens and smooths the skin, keeps the skin in good condition, and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: emollient, skin conditioning, hair conditioning and antifoaming.

emollientskin conditioninghair conditioningantifoaming

What other names and numbers does Simethicone have?

CAS number
8050-81-5
CosIng reference
78955

Which products contain Simethicone?

Open Beauty Facts finds Simethicone in the ingredient lists of 60 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often eye makeup, mascara and deodorants.

  • Eye makeup4
  • Mascara4
  • Deodorants4
  • Deodorant sticks3

Products with it, by country of sale: Australia 20 · United States 8 · Canada 7 · France 6.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Simethicone turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsEmollients

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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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