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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.

emollientviscosity controllinganticakingantifoamingemulsion 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.

  • Nail polishes27
  • Sunscreen21

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’.

  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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