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Silicones
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Sensorial silicones from Innospec offers a diverse range of speciality products that are developed and customized to mee the demanding requirements of customers’ unique applications. Whether you are looking for a flawless, matte skin finish, increase of hair shine or a pratical, thermal protection solution, you can be sure the Innospec Sensorial Silicones range will have what you are looking for.
Specialty Products – develop specialty compositions and customized compositions to meet the demanding requirements of customers’ unique applications. Innospec offers custom manufacturing of silicone compositions with additives such as actives and fragrances. Our purpose-built anhydrous blending facility affords an economical route to fully customized solutions even on a small batch basis.
Our Range Includes:
Silicone Fluid Compounds (Cosmetic Fluids)
Silicone Fluid Compounds contain various combinations of high viscosity silicone fluids and elastomers in a variety of diluents. These products vary in viscosity, feel aesthetics, shine, lubricity, water-resistance and application rub-in time. Grades of cosmetic fluids are based on solids, diluents, high viscosity fluids and/or elastomer derivatives. These variations give a wide range of characteristics when formulating products.
Silicone Gelling Agents (viscosity modifiers) are silicone compounds formulated specifically for increasing the viscosity of serums and silicone phases that are used in a variety of hair and skin treatment products. Gelaid® fluids can be used to formulate clear to translucent gels for a wide variety of applications.
Macro-Emulsions and Surfactants
Many of our Emulsil® products are developed as formulation compounds that provide a multitude of properties in hair care and skin care formulas.
Emulsil® emulsions provide improved combability and increase shine, softness, and reduce fly aways in leave-in and rinse-out hair care applications. Emulsil® silicone surfactants vary in the ethoxylation and propoxylation that provide the properties desired by the formulator for solubilization and emulsification of W/O and O/W emulsion products.
Microsil® products are silicone micro emulsions of amine functional silicones. The amine functional fluids used in these emulsions cover a range of performance and applications. Microsil® micro emulsions have unique properties due to their clarity and compatibility in anionic, cationic and nonionic formulations.
Specialty Products for Unique Applications
The Specsil products are a line of specialty products and formulated compositions that cover a wide range of skin, color, hair and sun care applications. The product range contains silicone elastomer gels, film formers and phenyl functional silicones.
Volasil® fluids are low viscosity cyclic silicones, disiloxanes, and dimethicones. These products are commonly used in a variety of personal care formulations due to their non-greasy feel and solvency. The volatility and after-feel of these raw materials enable use in almost any application.
Dimethyl Fluids, Dimethicone, Dimethyl & Amino Functional
Chemically inert, thermally stable, lubricous, and low toxicity make dimethyl silicone fluids the product of choice for many diverse applications. They are among the most versatile, cost-effective silicones used for aesthetic modification, lubricity, skin protection, thermal protection, and water resistance.
Hindered Amine Silicone Fluids
Dimethisil® HNH fluids are cationic hindered amine silicone fluids. These unique silicone raw materials are compatible with anionic surfactants and have an excellent toxicity profile for personal care applications. Innospec offers this unique functional ingredient in low, medium and high viscosities and varying cationic strengths.
Shineblend® fluids are economical silicone shine enhancers that can be used in sprayable formulations for hair and body care products. These compounds contain functional diluents in a variety of ratios. They are ready to use as the major base component for hair applications. Innospec can offer a wide range of Shineblend® fluids to accommodate formulator preferences for feel, shine, volatility, and economics. Not recommended for propellant systems.
Frizzblend MAX products contain a patent-pending hindered-amine capable of providing superior long-lasting frizz control, curl definition and curl memory. Frizzblend MAX-CF contains less than 0.1% of each cyclotetrasiloxane, cyclopentasiloxane and cyclohexasiloxane.
Cyclic-Silicone Replacements (Cyclic-Free)
Our versatile range of InnoSil cyclic-free silicones has plenty of options to meet various formulation needs. We can help you design a blend of dimethicones and trisiloxane with and without organic volatile ingredients to deliver your optimum solution.