Cosmetic functions, representative ingredients

Silicone polyethers are the most common silicone surfactants however, presently various research teams are aiming at the replacement of polyethers by carbohydrates (367). The widely available carbohydrates represent the main part of renewable resources and could be considered to function as predetermined breaking points during biodegradation of hybrid materials. In the 1990s, the carbohydrate-modified silicones were developed as a novel class of hydrophilic modified silicones and are now ready for marketing and industrially available, mainly as ingredients of cosmetic formulations (367,368). 

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