Broaden Your Color Cosmetic Spectrum! Looking to capitalize on bold trends with more colorful cosmetics? Univar Solutions with Dow offers a palette of multifunctional, china approved and low D4/D5 ingredients for facial, lip, and eye make-up applications that increase color intensity, offer greater flexibility, and make color fun to wear and easy to apply.
Sensorial Enhancer
DOWSIL™ EP-9610 Cosmetic Powder Our superior soft silicone elastomer powders provide a unique smooth, silky and bouncy feel with optical effect and sebum control for many applications and formulations.
Key Takeaway: DOWSIL™ EP-9610 Cosmetic Powder exhibits higher smoothness and easier spreading than DOWSIL™ 9506 Powder.
DOWSIL™ EL-8048 ID Silicone Organic Blend is one of the latest specialty ingredients from Dow for use in color-cosmetics products. It is compatible with a wide range of other personal care ingredients and offers new benefits:
• Dries quickly to enable time-saving products,
• Reduces tack, residue and greasiness,
• Improves smoothness and slipperiness,
• Provides powdery feel .
Ingredient that can help you formulate new color cosmetic solutions with an enhanced sensory appeal.
Foundations with EL-8048 ID dry quicker than those with 9040 or 9045, allowing for less rub-off on fabrics.
Test Method
1. Coata 25 micron film of foundation onto collagen block.
2. Place block into humidity oven at 37°C and 20% rH.
3. At each minute mark dab the fabric, which is attached to a weight, onto the coated block.
DOWSIL™ 3903 Liquid Satin Blend helps you meet the global demand for easy-to-apply products with long-lasting performance - while also delighting consumers with a luxurious sensory experience. With this silicone blend, skin care and color cosmetics formulations that deliver intense lubricity, as well as light, silky, satin smoothness are now within reach.
Long Lasting Enhancer
DOWSIL™ FA PEPS Silicone Acrylate has superior water and sebum repellency and excellent film integrity and rub-off resistance translate into long-duration benefits. High film elasticity delivers a comfortable wear experience. Non-occlusivity is linked to water vapor permeability. It uses a carrier 100% derived from renewable feedstocks, which can lower dependency on fossil resources. Improve your naturality content score with a potential of up to 60 percent in natural origin content (following ISO 16128 for substances).
EPITEX™ 99 is a hybrid film former combining affordability with excellent resistance to sebum, rub-off and wash-off, pigment dispersion improving - all while being comfortable to wear. For greater formulation and manufacturing process flexibility, this hybrid water-based film former delivers good performance in pure film and in water-in-oil and oil-in-water formulations.
*For more information about our color cosmetic solutions, such as sample formulations, please contact your Univar Solutions customer service representative.
Esra Aydoğdu
Account Manager \ Beauty & Personal Care
Univar Solutions
