Nature offers us innumerable varieties of carbohydrates, many of which are easily taken for granted. Simple sugars like glucose and mannose are among the most recognizable. Simple sugars can bind together into larger chains of sugars called polysaccharides. The paper on which this information is printed is derived from the world's most abundant carbohydrate - cellulose, a polymeric sugar derived from many glucose molecules.
Plant oligosaccharides are molecular chains of sugars that occupy a unique range of molecular weights existing somewhere between simple sugars (monosaccharides) such as glucose, and high molecular weight sugar polymers (polysaccharides) such as starch and cellulose.
As such, these oligomeric sugars have considerable water-retaining capabilities, like simple sugars, due to multiple sites where water can hydrogen bond to the sugar backbone. Unlike polysaccharides, however, the lower molecular weight of the oligosaccharides allows the materials to be readily water-soluble and to penetrate into the hair and skin to help carry moisture into the stratum corneum where it is most needed.
However, just simply having a low molecular weight sugar polymer is not enough to make a product effective in surfactant-containing systems such as shampoos and body washes. Under normal washing conditions, the surfactants would simply wash the sugar off the hair and skin.Stearyl Dihydroxypropyldimonium Oligosaccharides is a modified natural ingredient derived from sugarcane plant oligosaccharides through proprietary quaternization technology to place a cationic charge on the oligosaccharide. This affords a product that retains the extraordinary moisture-binding properties of simple sugars but also is extremely substantive to the hair and skin, a property most commonly associated with high molecular weight polysaccharides.
Stearyl Dihydroxypropyldimonium Oligosaccharides are naturally derived, efficacious quaternary for personal care. The presence of an oligosaccharide determines the improved performance and functionality of this material over more common quaternized materials. Stearyl Dihydroxypropyldimonium Oligosaccharides are ideal for rinse-off and leave-on applications for hair and skin.
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