Essentially, silicones form a thin film over your skin. If it’s in your serums and creams, you may be wearing it all day long. Research shows that this can interfere with the skin’s natural processes like sweating and sloughing off old dead skin cells. The more you use it, the more it may make fine lines and wrinkles more noticeable.

That film also causes a lot of people with sensitive skin to suffer from increased breakouts. If you’re trapping moisture, you’re also trapping bacteria, sebum, and other impurities, making an acne problem worse.

Finally, we know that you, like us, care about the environment, and silicones like dimethicone are not good for mother Earth. They are non-biodegradable, so they have to be specially disposed of.