DOWSIL™ Silicone Elstomers !

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.

DOWSIL™ EP-9608

DOWSIL™ EP-9610

DOWSIL™ 9506

DOWSIL™ EP-9701

DOWSIL™ Trefil E-508

EP-9215

Elastomer 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.

Powders

Features

Free Flowing

Low Agglomeration

Benefits

Ease of Formulation

Sebum Absorption

Wrinkle

Masking/ Soft Focus

Anhydrous Blends

Features

Volatile or non-volatile carrier fluid

Compatibility with organic ingredients (actives)

Can incorporate water

Benefits

Actives Delivery Aid (sunscreen, vitamins, etc.)

Increases absorbency/ Sensory skin feel

Rheology Modifier/ Thickens Oil

Creates Clear Formulations

Cold Process/ Ease of Formulation

Water Based

Features

Pre-emulsified water dispersible elastomers

Benefits

Applicable for Hair Care 

Styling Formulations

Ease of Formulation

Only new oil-loaded powder combines affinity to the skin and less agglomeration

DOWSIL™ 9610 COSMETIC POWDER

  • Silicone elastomer powder, spherical shape

  • Superior softness

  • Less agglomeration, easy to disperse

  • Provides silky, powdery, non-greasy skin feel

  • Enhances viscosity or rheology of silicones, oils or water-in-oil/silicone emulsions

  • Moderate sebum absorption

DOWSIL™ 9608 COSMETIC POWDER

  • Enhancing smoothness and blending into skin by outstanding softness of the powder
  • Natural finish and excellent pore hiding effect
  • Giving rich and moisture feel
  • Ease of handling, less agglomeration, easy to disperse
  • Can be formulated in various forms; powder, emulsion, oil, wax products
  • Giving fluid texture with oils even with high dosage of the powder

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)

Silicone Organic Elastomer Blends

This category of Dow Silicone Elastomers offers clear to slightly translucent crosslinked silicone-organic elastomer gels delivered in a variety of carrier fluids and viscosities. Silicone Organic Elastomer Blends are compatible with organics, both lipophilic and water-based ingredients, and can even create clear systems with unique aesthetics. They are able to act as a delivery aid and incorporate filters, pigments, and other actives while maintaining a viscous, gel structure.

As they don’t need to be heated, they enable cold energy-saving process.

DOWSIL™ EL-9081 SILICONE ELASTOMER BLEND

  • Provides a dry, silky feel to formulations

  • High Clarity elastomer blend

  • Sensory Enhancer (smooth feel)

  • No balling effect when rubbed on the skin

  • Texture Enhancer

DOWSIL™ EL-TIPS SILICONE ELASTOMER

  • Provides a rich smooth after-feel

  • Mask skin imperfections Good compatibility with organic oils, including sunscreens

  • Bio based carrier

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

Physical property Oil absorbing data of various oils
(g oil/ g E-powder)

DOWSIL™ EP-9608
Cosmestic Powder

DOWSIL™ EP-9608
Cosmestic Powder

DOWSIL™ EP-9608
Cosmestic Powder

DOWSIL™ EP-9608
Cosmestic Powder

Powder Hardness7104030
Sunflower Oil0.050.170.490.49
Ricinius Oil0.050.210.550.44
Triethylhexanoin0.080.601.101.28
Cetylethylhexanoate0.110.591.021.10
Squalane0.100.480.821.12
Mineral Oil0.100.500.931.31
Dimethicone (6mPa*s)0.092.042.732.56
Dimethicone (2mPa*s)0.092.282.804.15
Cyclopentasiloxane (D5)0.132.722.964.73

Applications
  • Hair Care

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