Is Dimethicone safe during pregnancy?

It creates a semi-occlusive layer that slows water loss without the heaviness of petrolatum, and it fills in surface texture optically.

It is inert, non-reactive and one of the least allergenic ingredients in cosmetics, which is why it appears in barrier creams and eczema products.

Typical use on shelf: 1%–10% in moisturisers, primers and sunscreens..

• It does not 'suffocate' skin — that claim has no basis — but it can trap other ingredients underneath it.
• Some people find it pills under sunscreen or makeup.

One ingredient rarely decides anything. Paste the full list from each product you use into the pregnancy ingredient checker and take the flags to your clinician. The full write-up on Dimethicone — what it does, irritation, pore-clogging risk — is on the Dimethicone explainer.