The Expert Panel for Cosmetic Ingredient Safety concluded that the following 30 dimethicone, methicone, and substituted-methicone polymers are safe in cosmetics in the present practices of use and concentration described in this safety assessment when formulated to be non-irritating, with the exception that the available data are insufficient to make a determination of safety for use of these ingredients in products that may be incidentally inhaled when applied using airbrush devices: Methicone

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