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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
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
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Silicone elastomer powder, spherical shape
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Superior softness
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Less agglomeration, easy to disperse
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Provides silky, powdery, non-greasy skin feel
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Enhances viscosity or rheology of silicones, oils or water-in-oil/silicone emulsions
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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
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Provides a dry, silky feel to formulations
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High Clarity elastomer blend
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Sensory Enhancer (smooth feel)
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No balling effect when rubbed on the skin
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Texture Enhancer
DOWSIL™ EL-TIPS SILICONE ELASTOMER
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Provides a rich smooth after-feel
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Mask skin imperfections Good compatibility with organic oils, including sunscreens
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Bio based carrier
DOWSIL™ EL-7040 HYDRO ELASTOMER BLEND
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Provides smooth feel and matte appearance
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Good compatibility with organic oils
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Can incorporate water and polar materials such as glycerin
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Can enhance sensory effects for increased absorption
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Creates a fast-break emulsion that can deliver a burst of water to the skin
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Can create clear systems
DOWSIL™ EL-8050 ID SILICONE ORGANIC ELASTOMER BLEND
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Provides a dry, silky feel to formulations
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Provides a mattifying effect to the skin
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Good compatibility with organic oils, including sunscreens
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Improved non-transfer in color cosmetics (longer wear)
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Can create clear systems
Physical property Oil absorbing data of various oils
| (g oil/ g E-powder) | DOWSIL™ EP-9608 | DOWSIL™ EP-9608 | DOWSIL™ EP-9608 | DOWSIL™ EP-9608 |
| Powder Hardness | 7 | 10 | 40 | 30 |
| Sunflower Oil | 0.05 | 0.17 | 0.49 | 0.49 |
| Ricinius Oil | 0.05 | 0.21 | 0.55 | 0.44 |
| Triethylhexanoin | 0.08 | 0.60 | 1.10 | 1.28 |
| Cetylethylhexanoate | 0.11 | 0.59 | 1.02 | 1.10 |
| Squalane | 0.10 | 0.48 | 0.82 | 1.12 |
| Mineral Oil | 0.10 | 0.50 | 0.93 | 1.31 |
| Dimethicone (6mPa*s) | 0.09 | 2.04 | 2.73 | 2.56 |
| Dimethicone (2mPa*s) | 0.09 | 2.28 | 2.80 | 4.15 |
| Cyclopentasiloxane (D5) | 0.13 | 2.72 | 2.96 | 4.73 |
Applications
- Hair Care
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