Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Succinate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Succinate is a cosmetic ingredient that makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 5 products, most often soaps.

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What does Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Succinate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Succinate makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists this job for it: hair conditioning.

hair conditioning

What is Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Succinate?

Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone Peg-8 Succinate is the siloxane polymer formed by the reaction of cetyl triethylamine and dimethicone peg-8 and succinic acid.

CosIng reference
55283

Which products contain Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Succinate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Succinate in the ingredient lists of 5 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often soaps.

  • Soaps1

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

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cetyl Triethylmonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Succinate 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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