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PPG-12 Dimethicone
PPG-12 Dimethicone
A modified silicone used as a skin and hair conditioner.
What it does
It’s dimethicone, a silicone, with a PPG chain attached. The EU lists it to condition skin and hair.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2015) assessed 111 silicones joined to PEG or PPG chains, used to condition hair, thicken, steady mixtures and form films. These large molecules aren’t expected to pass into skin. A brow pencil with 15% cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 dimethicone didn’t irritate or cause allergy in people. They judged all 111 safe as used, bis-hydroxyethoxypropyl dimethicone, lauryl PEG-9 polydimethylsiloxyethyl dimethicone and PPG-12 dimethicone among them.Becker 2015 · Cosmetic Ingredient Review ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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