Butylene glycol and propylene glycol are commonly used in skincare products, cleansing products, and color cosmetics. They are often classified as humectants, but understanding these ingredients only from the perspective of “moisturization” underestimates their actual value in formulations.
The opacity of daily chemical products comes from microstructures formed within the formula that can affect the propagation of light. When light enters a system, if it can pass through relatively smoothly, the product appears transparent or translucent. If light continuously encounters ...
In personal care formulations, silicone fluids are commonly used in skin care, hair care, sun care, color cosmetics, and cleansing products. They are mainly used to improve application properties such as spreading, lubrication, smoothness, water resistance, gloss, and conditioning. These effects ...
In skincare products, facial cleansers, soaps, laundry powders, kitchen cleaners, toothpaste, hair dyes, and depilatory products, alkaline ingredients such as sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, triethanolamine, ammonia water, and calcium hydroxide are ...
For functional ingredients used in personal care and home care formulations, structural characteristics are one of the key foundations that determine their application value: whether the ingredient carries a charge, whether it can form a film, whether it can modify rheological properties, and ...
