Boy, you make us work hard! 

I found two sources that discussed this ingredient.  Not being a chemist, I am somewhat limited in my interpretation, but what I found was that this is primarily used in conditioners to improve the "slip" on the hair both when it is wet and dry.  It does deposit a coating on the hair, but it is water soluable.  It is intended to improve your ability to comb your hair when it is wet and dry. 

The one article actually compared bleached blonde hair to natural Asian hair.  There was a more marked improvement on the bleached blonde hair (duh!). 

If you are suffering from insomnia, feel free to read these reports yourself.  If you interpret them differently from me, please fill us in!

Dow Corning report

Advances in the use of silicones in cosemetics

Wow , Bikerbraid!

I just read both the articles from your links listed above and they were incredible.  I especially liked the one from Dow Corning.

I got the same take on it that you had; it sure sounds water soluable to me.  Boy, chemistry can sure get technical, can't it?  It was kind of hard reading but very, very good.  Thank you for finding this info for me!

strawberryfine

Bikerbraid,

I had to stop by this thread again and say "thanks" for the info and links you gave me.

I've analyzed it to death, I think I'm going to try the conditioner with Trimethylsilyl Amodimethicone, Phytobaume.

How often would you ACV rinse if you were  using a cone containing product like this?

Thanks once again,

SF;
As I mentioned on the other thread, I'd start out with an ACV rinse every third use of the product.  You may need to do the ACV rinse more often, you will just need to see how your hair reacts.