Stable emulsions are fundamental for the quality and performance of personal care products. Yet they are among your most challenging formulation tasks. Emulsion stabilizers must create stable, long-lasting emulsions with an incredibly diverse range of ingredients.
Emulsion stabilizers help improve the overall consumer experience. Today, chemistry offers the broadest range of ingredients for use as co-emulsifiers and stabilizers in personal care products. The cutting-edge chemistries meet emerging requirements for mildness, flexibility, ease of use, and consumer-pleasing sensory attributes.
The selection of emulsifiers and the development of stabilization solutions that build quality into your personal care formulations help reduce your developmental costs and speed up the product’s time to market.
Over fifty years ago, a scientist from Atlas Powder Company developed the HLB system – one of the industry’s most valuable emulsion formulation tools still used worldwide today. Today, the industry has the broadest range of chemistries for emulsification and emulsion stabilization effects, with a range of ingredients that can be tailored to meet the needs of the formulations.DUB Velvet Gum is a complex with an original gel structure: a silicone cross polymer combined with a branched ester with a “velvet” feel.
DUB Velvet Gum is a bentone-based gelling agent. It is an excellent rheological additive, typically used in concentrations of 2 to 6%.
Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax is a natural ingredient for the personal care and pharmaceutical industries. It is obtained from the shrub Euphorbia Cerifera, which grows in Mexico and southern Texas.
Glyceryl Behenate is a monoester of glycin with behenic acid (C22). It is a high-molecular-weight solid ester that melts at about 70°C, and its properties are similar to those of Behenyl Behenate. It is an off-white to yellow coarse powder insoluble in water, ethanol, and propylene glycol.
Glyceryl Hydroxystearate is an off-white waxy solid that functions principally as an auxiliary emulsifier in personal care preparations. Its waxlike properties approach those of beeswax. It has an HLB value of 3.4.
Glyceryl Polymethacrylate is a non-drying lubricant whit excellent water solubility. It is a clear, mildly acidic (pH: 4.7 - 5.5) multi-functional moisturizer that enhances the feel and lubricity of formulations.
Glycol Distearate is a diester of stearic acid with ethylene glycol, a waxy solid used as an emulsifier (HLB value of ~ 5.5), emulsion stabilizer, and opacifier.
Guar gum is a plant polysaccharide obtained from the shrub's seeds, Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba, which, like the soybean, belongs to the Family Leguminoseae. It is a non-ionic, salt-tolerant galactomannan with excellent thickening properties.
Corn starch is a vegetable polymer used for decades in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. In its regular unmodified form, corn starch does not always provide desired technical properties and can therefore undergo modification or derivatization that shapes it according to needs.
Jojoba Oil Glycereth-8 Esters is a naturally transesterified Jojoba oil (Simmondsia Chinensis). This oil transforms into a water-soluble ingredient thanks to an exclusive transesterification process.
Laneth-15 is ethoxylated lanolin alcohol with 15 moles of ethylene oxide, a nonionic surface active agent with a remarkable blend of branched-chain alcohols and sterols. Due to these natural skin-moisturizing lipids, this ingredient possesses significant emollience.
Also known as magnesium salt, this substance is found in many medicines taken today in pill form. It is regarded as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
Cellulose derivatives have the polymeric backbone of cellulose, with repeating anhydroglucose units. After alkaline treatment, cellulose is reacted with methyl chloride to yield methyl ether groups. The end product is purified and ground to a fine powder and is known as methylcellulose.
Microcrystalline cellulose is purified, isolated colloidal crystalline cellulose derived from fibrous plants. It is a white, free-flowing powder that is odorless and insoluble in water.
Montmorillonite is a phyllosilicate mineral clay of smectite gourp. There are three types of Montmorillonite clays with reddish, bluish, and greenish tints.
Rassoul (or Ghassoul) is a Moroccan lava clay used for washing and cleaning hair and skin.
Oleth-3 is an ethoxylated oleyl alcohol with three moles of ethylene oxide. It is an off-white, hazy liquid with a mild, characteristic odor (virtually odorless).
Oleth-5 is an ethoxylated oleyl alcohol with five moles of ethylene oxide, an off-white, hazy liquid with a mild, characteristic odor (virtually odorless).
Ozokerite is a type of wax in the form of off-white prills. It serves as a base material for manufacturing of lip balm sticks. Its congealing point 80-86°C and its dropping point 93-99°C.
Lip balms made with Ozokerite are high quality and suitable for different climates.
Pectins are heteropolysaccharides abundant in plant cell membranes. They are polymers galacturonic acid sup-units and are acid-stable gel formers obtained by extraction from apple or citrus peels.
PEG-100 Stearate is a product of poly-ethoxylation of stearic acid (18-carbon backbone fatty acid) that contains 100 moles of ethylene oxide (polymer part). The raw materials have mixed origins, namely, petrochemical and botanical.
PEG-80 Sorbitan Laurate is a coconut oil fatty acid ester of sorbitol, and its mono- and dianhydrides are copolymerized with approximately 80 moles of ethylene oxide. It is prepared as a 72% solution in water, which is a clear liquid with a HLB of 19.4.
Phytosteryl/Decyltetradecyl Myristoyl Methyl Beta-Alaninate is an amino acid-based waxy emollient ester with a ceramide-like structure. It imparts a light touch and moistness to the skin and provides good spreadability and smoothness during application.
Polyglyceryl-4 Diisostearate/Polyhydroxystearate/Sebacate is an emulsifier also known under the trade name ISOLAN® GPS for formulating low-viscosity water-in-oil lotions with an exceeding light skin feel.
Polysorbate 65 is a stearic acid triester of sorbitol, and its mono- and dianhydrides are copolymerized with approximately 20 moles of ethylene oxide. It is a tan solid soluble in vegetable oils and mineral oils. It is insoluble in water.