CYCLOPENTASILOXANE
- Function
- hair conditioning, skin conditioning, skin conditioning - emollient, solvent
- CAS
- 541-02-6
- 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
- 204 products in our catalogue
Classified as
- silicone
Definition
Cyclopentasiloxane is the cyclic dimethyl polysiloxane that conforms to the formula:
Chemical definition from CosIng, the EU cosmetic ingredient register.