Cosmetics & Personal Care
Fluids
Enriching sunscreens, makeup and skincare
Gelest delivers intrinsically D4, D5, D6-free siloxanes that cross the boundary between organics and silicones, delivering increased spreadability and enhanced compatibility.
Fluids
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With R&D, technical services, laboratories, and commercial and warehousing operations in one location, Gelest can develop and scale new products quickly and reliably.
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Recommended Applications
- Make-Up
- Sunscreen
- Skin Care
- Hair Care
- Achieves unique skin feel
- Introduce slip with a light natural feel
- Improves perfume retention
- Offers compatibility with natural cosmetic ingredients
- Improves wear properties
- Lowers surface tension
- Allows for greater formulation latitude
- Enhances dispersion of pigments and fillers
Featured Product
SiBrid® TM-081: Caprylyl Methicone
SiBrid® TM-081
TM-081 combines a light dry feel and the excellent slip of silicone with excellent organic compatibility. Due to good pigment wetting properties, TM-081 is recommended for use in long wearing foundations, lipsticks, and eye shadows.
SiBrid® TM-081Key Benefits
- Powerful cleansing and debriding ability
- Lowers skin barrier function
- Improves skin affinity and adhesion
- Globally approved
- Uniquely natural smooth skin feel
- Non-tacky soft touch
- Light and non-greasy emollient
- Increased moisture binding capacity
- Antistatic for smooth shiny hair
- Unusual combination of light dry feel with substantivity
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Ethylene-Dimethicone Block Polymers
Offer smoothness of paraffins without waxy feel. Can form barriers to moisture transmission.
Methicones (Trisiloxanes)
Enhance slip and reduce tack in skin care and color cosmetics. Used to wet and easily disperse organic and inorganic pigments.
Specialty Hybrid Siloxanes
Reduce greasiness in skin care and color cosmetics. Offer non-irritating natural components paired with a silicone backbone.
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An innovator in materials science and technology, Gelest manufactures and supplies silane, silicone and metal-organic compounds to some of the world’s most innovative companies.
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From cosmetics to microelectronics, Gelest serves a diverse range of markets. We specialize in custom compound development to develop the exact solution for the exact client need.
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