Dimethicone
Dimethicone appears in 95 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Dimethicone appears in 95 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 95
- catalogued products
- #3,238
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 36%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 27 of 95 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 50 Baby Mineral Sunscreen; 50 Sensitive; AlphaRet Overnight Cream to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Dimethicone itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Sunscreen supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
27 of 95 linked records have some flagged component
All 93 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Dimethicone: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,238 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,238
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 25 others that also appear in exactly 95 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Mean relative depth 36% across 95 parsed labels, slot 10.4 on average. Dimethicone tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Dimethicone
Across the 95 products on this site that list Dimethicone, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 5x more often with Dimethicone than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dimethicone products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 10 | 10.5% | 2.1% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 8 | 8.4% | 1.4% |
| BHT | 7 | 7.4% | 1.1% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 5 | 5.3% | 1.3% |
| Blue 1 | 5 | 5.3% | 4.2% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dimethicone
Products Containing Dimethicone
High-volume slice (16 of 95) for products naming Dimethicone:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Apples And Calcium Ascorbate”)
High-volume peers for Dimethicone: 95 products, mean screening score 92.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Apples And Calcium Ascorbate · Barbecue Sauce · Black Bean. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Dimethicone page
Use the 95-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Dimethicone before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Dimethicone next to “Barbecue Sauce” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Dimethicone — common follow-ups
Does Dimethicone carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Dimethicone. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dimethicone? ▼
Dimethicone ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,238 of 247,206), appearing in 95 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dimethicone so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dimethicone appears in 95 products (#3,238 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dimethicone). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.