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Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate - Hybrid Ingredients

Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate Powder

£5.00 - £30.00
£5.00
£5.00 - £30.00
£5.00

INCI Name: Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate

Description

DRY-FLO® PC is a unique, hydrophobically modified natural polymer. Supplied as a free-flowing white powder, DRY-FLO® PC displays a unique combination of properties that makes it well suited for use in a wide variety of personal care products, including powders, colour cosmetics, lotions and creams, antiperspirants and deodorants, sunscreens, and pomades.

Features and Benefits

  • Soft, velvety feel
  • Hydrophobic and Oil adsorbent 
  • Natural polymer Free flowing/anti-caking
  • Fine, uniform particle size • Easy to use • Environmentally friendly 
  • Improves aesthetics and mitigates greasiness of lotions, creams and ointments 
  • Improves aesthetics and flow properties of powders
  • Does not whiten on skin

Recommended applications 

  • Powders  and Color cosmetics 
  • Lotions • Ointments • Creams • Sunscreens• Pomades
  • Antiperspirants • Deodorants • Dry schampoo 
Technical Details

Appearance

White to off-white free-flowing powder, essentially free of foreign material.

Specifications

  • Ash ≤ 0.7 %
  • Moisture ≤ 14.0 %
  • pH 4.5-7.0
  • Slightly anionic
  • Screen Analysis, through 100 mesh screens≥ 99.5 %

Storage and handling

Dry-Flo PC is finely divided organic particulate. When handling, avoid the generation of dust. Use in well-ventilated areas. The use of a dust mask is suggested.

Exercise good housekeeping practices. Avoid contact with the Dry-Flo PC powders or dust with heat, sparks or open
flame.

* Further documentation available with purchase

Formulation Guide

Suggested use levels:

Aqueous emulsion systems 1-10%
Ointments up to 30%
Dry powder applications 5-50%

Dry-Flo PC/Pure starches are commonly used as an aesthetics modifier in aqueous emulsions as well as in anhydrous ointment formulations.

The method of incorporation, which is especially important when adding it to an aqueous emulsion, is detailed below.

Aqueous emulsions


Dry-Flo PC/Pure starches are hydrophobic and thus not wetted by water alone.

The preferred method of incorporation into an emulsion is to wet out the starch in water-soluble humectants or oils.

Post add the slurry to the emulsion below 45°C, on cool down. The Dry-Flo PC can be added as a powder directly to the emulsion with proper
mixing.

Again, care must be taken to incorporate the starch at 45°C or below when used in aqueous systems.

If temperatures above 50°C are encountered, the starch granule begins to partially solubilize, reducing its effectiveness as an aesthetics control agent and potentially increasing the formulation viscosity.


Anhydrous ointments


Combine all ingredients, except for Dry-Flo PC/Pure starches and heat to melt. Mix until homogeneous. Slowly sift in the Dry-Flo PC and mix until uniform.

Maintain the temperature above the melting point of the combined oleaginous materials; the starch will remain in the system as a particulate.

Note that the temperature constraint outlined for aqueous emulsions does not apply in anhydrous systems.

The Dry-Flo PC/Pure starches will be unaffected up to 80°C in non-aqueous formulations.

Once added to either an aqueous emulsion or an anhydrous product, the Dry-Flo PC can be homogenized or milled without affecting its properties.

Because Dry-Flo PC is an organic material, it is susceptible to bacteriological attack. Suitable preservation is recommended for systems containing Dry-Flo PC.

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