Dimethicone is part of the very large silicone family. Made through chemical synthesis, silicones are widely used in cosmetics because of the benefits they offer: smooth hair, soft skin, perfect makeup… Great but at what cost?
🌎 Very hard, sometimes impossible to biodegrade, silicones pollute our environment 🐟 and also disrupt the methanization process in water treatment plants 💧
Today, their use keeps growing 🥺 Yet alternatives do exist (like plant-based squalane), used in certified natural and organic skincare!
So, if you want to avoid dimethicone in your cosmetics, choose the Cosmébio label, the label that helps you tell real organic from fake organic.
Dimethicone is just one of the silicones used in cosmetics. Here are some others: cyclomethicone, cyclopentasiloxane, cyclohexasiloxane, trisiloxane, dimethicone copolyol, aminodimethicone, dimethiconol, crosspolymer, vinyl dimethicone, trimethylsiloxysilicate…