Decyl Glucoside is used as surfactant in hair care products. Surfactants help to clean skin and hair by helping water to mix with oil and dirt so that they can be rinsed away.

Decyltetradecanol enhances the appearance of dry or damaged skin by reducing flaking and restoring suppleness. Further, it helps to give the product the desired consistency. In hair colorants and care products it is used to soften dry and damaged hair and to help reducing tangles and surface roughness.

Dextrin functions by increasing the solubility of water-insoluble compounds. Hair care products as creams are then able to achieve a more stable, smooth, and uniform texture.

Diammonium Dithiodiglycolate is used together with Ammonium Thioglycolate to extend the time window for the application to reach a certain perm strength.

Diamond Powder is a great exfoliator, gentler than most others and has skin-brightening and imperfection-disguising abilities wherefore it is often used in skin care products. In Hair Care it is used as diamond dust reflects light and gives a luminous, pearlescent finish to the hair. It also helps to keep the natural texture of the hair and the color at its full potential.

Dicaprylyl Ether is used in Shampoos, Conditioners, Hair Colorants and Leave On Treatments due to its fast spreading capabilities, and is thus used to improve application by helping facilitate the spreadability of the product. With its emollient properties it helps to smoothen and soften the hair while providing a dry and non-greasy, silky feel, unlike most emollients, especially in leave on treatments.

Dicaprylyl Maleate is mainly used as film former and hair conditioner. It dries to form a thin coating on the hair that helps to increase the softness or smoothness of hair, reduce tangles and hair surface roughness.Dicaprylyl Maleate enhances the appearance of dry or damaged skin by reducing flaking and restoring suppleness. It is also used to dissolve other substances.

Dicetyl Phosphate is an anionic emulsifier used both to keep the product consistency stable over time and across a range of storage temperatures. In colorants is is used to maintain consistency across the whole range of dye loads necessary to create the broad shade portfolio. Dicetyl Phosphate is used to create a gel network, which is a particular type of cream structure. Additionally this emulsifier helps to keep the cream structure of the colorant constant when mixed with a developer.

Dicetyldimonium Chloride is used in our products as antistatic and hair conditioner. It eliminates "fly-away hair" while leaving hair manageable, soft and tangle free as well as easy to comb in wet and dry stage.

Diisopropyl Adipate acts as lubricants on the skin's surface, which gives the skin a soft and smooth appearance. It is also used to dissolve other substances to soften synthetic compounds by reducing brittleness and cracking. for this reason we use it in some of our products to enhance product performance for application.

Dimethicone works as an anti-foaming agent, skin protectant and skin and hair conditioner. It prevents water loss by forming a barrier on the skin. Like most silicone materials, Dimethicone has a unique fluidity that makes it easily spreadable and, when applied to skin or hair, gives products a smooth and silky feel. It can also help fill in fine lines/wrinkles on the face.

Dimethiconol enhances the appearance of dry or damaged skin by reducing flaking and restoring suppleness.Dimethiconol also acts as an Anti Foaming ingredient to avoid foam while shaking or during production of a product.

Dimethyl Ether works as a solvent, aerosol propellant and viscosity decreasing (reducing thickness) in cosmetic products. As a solvent, it prevents other ingredients from separating from a solution, and helps cosmetic formulations maintain their clarity even when they've been exposed to extreme temperatures.Dimethyl Ether is as a gas in aerosol propellants, to expel the product through the nozzle with pressure.

Dimethyl Stearamine is an antistatic and hair conditioning ingredient. It eliminates "fly-away hair" and leaves hair easy to comb, flexible, soft and shiny.

'Dioscorea Villosa (Wild Yam) Root Extract can be used for skincare products for its known moisturizing effect whereby it enhances the appearance of dry or damaged skin by reducing flaking and restoring suppleness.It also can be used for anti-aging, as an antioxidant and for its anti-inflammatory properties. The anti-inflammatory property assists in lessening swelling which when used in a lotion keeps the skin looking fresh.

Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate is a skin conditioner with anti-inflammatory properties used in perms. It helps to enhance the appearance of dry skin by reducing flaking and restoring suppleness.

Dipropylene Glycol helps to dissolve or suspend other ingredients in a formulation without chemically altering the other ingredients. In Hair Colorants and Care products it is mainly used as Solvent and for its moisturizing properties while in Styling products it provides easy spreadibility and therefore it enhances application.

Disiloxane enhances the appearance of dry or damaged skin by reducing flaking and restoring suppleness.Disiloxane also acts as an Anti Foaming ingredient to avoid foam while shaking or during production of a product.

Disodium EDTA is a chelant which binds to and deactivates several types of metal ions. The effect helps to boost the preservative system of our products. In Colorants this helps to preserve the intended color result and product stability in case of metal ion exposure during manufacturing of the tint.

Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate​ is used mainly as surfactant to improve foaming and hair cleaning properties in shampoos.

Disodium Phosphate functions as pH Buffer,e.g. in Developers keeping the pH at a desired level for product stability and consumer safety.

Disperse Black 9 imparts black color however, the exact color result will depend on the other ingredients that are used in the preparation and the starting color of the hair.

Disperse Blue 377 imparts blue color to hair however, the exact color result will depend on the other ingredients that are used in the preparation and the starting color of the hair.

Disperse Red 17 imparts red color to hair however, the exact color result will depend on the other ingredients that are used in the preparation and the starting color of the hair.

Disperse Violet 1 imparts violet color to hair however, the exact color result will depend on the other ingredients that are used in the preparation and the starting color of the hair.

Distearyl Ether improves the products texture while it imparts a pearlescence to the final product. Due to its emollient and moisturizing properties it softens skin and hair and provides sheen.

Distearyldimonium Chloride mainly functions as an Antistatic. It reduces static electricity by neutralizing electrical charge on a surface. As hair conditioning ingredient it increases the softness and smoothness of hair.

DMDM Hydantoin is a preservative, that prevents or retards microbial growth, thereby protecting cosmetics from spoilage.