Aug 5, 2016
1) Grease
Grease is the basic raw materialcomposition of Cream Cosmetic, mainly from the skin, silky and moisturizingeffects. Fatty acid glycerides animal fat is the main component of thecomposition, in liquid at room temperature is referred to as an oil, in a solidstate is called fat. According to sources can be divided into vegetable oilsand animal fats. Vegetable oils including coconut oil, olive oil, castor oil,almond oil, peanut oil, soybean oil and palm oil. Animal fats including tallow,lard, mink oil and seal oil. Animal and vegetable fats hydrogenated productcalled these hardened oil. Commonly used in cosmetics hardened oils are:hydrogenated coconut oil, hydrogenated tallow, hardened castor oil and hardenedsoybean oil.
2) Waxes
Waxes are esters of higher fatty acids andhigher fatty alcohol thereof. In cosmetics primarily as a fixing agent,increasing the stability of cosmetic, adjusting its viscosity and improve themelting point of the liquid oil, the effect of softening the skin during use. Accordingto different sources, waxes can also be divided into vegetable waxes and animalwaxes. Vegetable waxes include carnauba wax, jojoba wax and candelilla wax.Animal waxes include beeswax, lanolin wax, whale oil and wax worms.
3) High-carbon hydrocarbons
Raw materials used in cosmeticshydrocarbons including alkanes and alkenes, which are mainly in cosmetics isits dissolution, clean skin surface. Can form hydrophobic film on the skinsurface, the skin surface to inhibit evaporation of moisture, improve cosmeticeffect. Used in cosmetics include squalane, vaseline, liquid paraffin and solidparaffin.
4) Flour
Flour matrix is composed of raw materialpowder, powder, rouge, powder, tooth powder and toothpaste and other cosmeticscategory. Generally water-insoluble solid powder made by grinding, mainly fromthe cover, smooth, absorption, adsorption, and friction and so on. Commonlyused in cosmetics powder feedstock mainly talc, kaolin, and titanium dioxideand the like.
5) Solvents
The solvent is paste, paste and liquidcosmetic formulations indispensable ingredients, including water, ethanol,butanol, amyl alcohol and isopropanol. Solvent in the formula with the otheringredients complement each other, so that products have certain physical andchemical properties, easy to use. In cosmetics, in addition to the use ofsolubility in solvents, but also to use its volatile, wetting, lubricating,plasticizing, Paul Hong, antifreeze and convergence properties.