CYCLOHEXASILOXANE

Function
hair conditioning, skin conditioning - emollient, solvent
CAS
540-97-6
Comedogenic
0–1DERIVED, not measured: no member of the silicone family that Fulton 1989 tested scored 2 or above. Supporting rows -- Dimethicone 1, Cyclomethicone 0, Simethicone 1 -- every silicone in Table I is 0 or 1. This ingredient itself was not tested; see docs/sources/fulton-1989-table-1.tsv.
Appears in
73 products in our catalogue

Classified as

  • silicone

Definition

Cyclohexasiloxane is the cyclic dimethyl polysiloxane that conforms to the formula, where n equals 6, and the other components of cyclomethicone (where n equals 4, 5, or 7) are present at levels of less than 1%.

Chemical definition from CosIng, the EU cosmetic ingredient register.