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Versatile, multifunctional sensory enhancers with a proven safety profile and low D4/D5 content to meet your regulatory requirements.
Dow offers a wide range of Silicone Elastomers to enhance your next skin care formulation
Format | Features | Benefits |
Powders |
Free Flowing Low Agglomeration |
Ease of Formulation Sebum Absorption Wrinkle Masking/ Soft Focus |
Anhydrous Blends |
Volatile or non-volatile carrier fluid Compatibility with organic ingredients (actives) Can incorporate water |
Actives Delivery Aid (sunscreen, vitamins, etc.) Increases absorbency/ Sensory skin feel Rheology Modifier/ Thickens Oil Phase Creates Clear Formulations Cold Process/ Ease of Formulation |
Water Based | Pre-emulsified water dispersible elastomers |
Applicable for Hair Care Styling Formulations Ease of Formulation |
Powders
Dow Silicone Elastomer Powders can be added to a wide range of formulations, including:
- Face and body creams, lotions, gels
- Color cosmetics such as foundations, loose and pressed powders, eye shadows, bronzers and highlighters and lipsticks
- Sun care products
These products are easy to formulate and can be added directly to a compatible liquid phase without the need for making a premix in another fluid. For powder or solid formulations, they can be ground directly with other powders.
DOWSIL™ 9701 COSMETIC POWDER
- Easy dispersion in different media (even in the presence of pigments)
- Provides wrinkle masking benefits
- Gives dry, silky powdery skin feel
- Oil and sebum reduction
- Oil phase thickener (see figure below)
DOWSIL™ EP-9801 HYDRO COSMETIC POWDER
- Water dispersible and oil dispersible in a variety of media
- Provides wrinkle masking, soft-focus look and mattifying effect
- Gives unique, smooth, powdery skin feel
- Oil and sebum reduction (see figure below)
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Silicone Organic Elastomer Blends
This category of Dow Silicone Elastomers offers clear to slightly translucent crosslinked silicone-organic elastomer gels delivered in various carrier fluids. These products are able to act as a delivery aid and incorporate filters, pigments, and other actives while maintaining a viscous, gel structure.
When you are considering sustainability, save energy by using a cold process with silicone organic elastomer blends. These products are compatible with organics, both lipophilic and water-based, and can even create clear systems with unique aesthetics.
These products are available with a variety of carrier fluids and viscosities. These products are available with a variety of carrier fluids and viscosities.
DOWSIL™ EL-7040 HYDRO ELASTOMER BLEND
- Provides smooth feel and matte appearance
- Good compatibility with organic oils
- Can incorporate water and polar materials such as glycerin
- Can enhance sensory effects for increased absorption
- Creates a fast-break emulsion that can deliver a burst of water to the skin
- Can create clear systems
DOWSIL™ EL-8050 ID SILICONE ORGANIC ELASTOMER BLEND
- Provides a dry, silky feel to formulations
- Provides a mattifying effect to the skin
- Good compatibility with organic oils, including sunscreens
- Improved non-transfer in color cosmetics (longer wear)
- Can create clear systems
Regulatory
Silicones have a safe and sustainable safety profile backed by hundreds of years of scientific results. For customers seeking globally compliant materials due to D4/D5 environmental regulation in the European Union, many silicone elastomers are low D4/D5 content (< 0.1%) and compliant with this regulation.
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Applications, Benefits & Characteristics
applications
- Rinse-off conditioners
- Leave-in conditioners
- Shampoos
- Sulfate-free shampoos
- Anhydrous serums
- Styling conditioners
- Clear anhydrous formulations possible
benefits
- Superior conditioning
- Reduced dry friction
- Improved wet & dry combing
- Reduced breakage
- Long-lasting hydrophobicity
- Fast drying
- Ease of styling
- Improved alignment
- Color protection
- Heat protection
- Non-yellowing in formulation
- Solvent is readily biodegradable
- Improves hair alignment and manageability
- Enhances silicone deposition on hair especially on damaged hair
- Provides soft styling benefit (ie. curl retention) in leave-on formulations
- Ease of formulation – no emulsification needed
- Enables clear products
- Acts as rheology modifier
- Helps increase natural content of formulation
- Non-GMO
- This product is derived from synthetic, petrochemical, vegetal, and/or mineral origin. Contact with animal derived products is not expected.
- Biodegradable
- Global regulatory compliance
characteristics
- INCI Name: Bis-Diisopropanolamino-PG-Propyl Disiloxane/Bis-Vinyl Dimethicone Copolymer
- Appearance: Clear to slightly hazy fluid
- Active content: 90% active in 10% butyloctanol
- Use level: 1-2%
- Cyclic concentration : < 0.1% D4, D5, D6
- Viscosity at 25°C (77°F): 4000-15000 cSt
- Specific gravity at 25°C (77°F): 0.95
- Flash point (Cleveland closed-cup) °C > 132
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