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.
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Format |
Features |
Benefits |
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Powders |
Free Flowing Low Agglomeration |
Ease of Formulation Sebum Absorption Wrinkle Masking/ Soft Focus |
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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 |
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Water Based |
Pre-emulsified water dispersible elastomers |
Applicable for Hair Care Styling Formulations Ease of Formulation |
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)
*Viscosity of water-in-silicone cream
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)
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.
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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.
EMEA
Latin America
North America
Asia