Product Description
A volatile siloxane fluid (hexamethyldisiloxane). INCI Name: Disiloxane
Uses
- Personal care products: hair sprays, cleansing creams, skin creams, lotions, bath oils, suntan products, and nail polishes
- Personal care products: antiperspirants and deodorants (1 cSt, 1.5 cSt, 2 cSt)
- Industrial applications: glass vial and lens coatings, household product ingredients, mechanical fluids, penetrating oil ingredients, surface active agents, coatings, electrical insulating fluids and polish ingredients
Benefits
- Good dielectric properties
- High water repellency
- High shearability without breakdown
- High compressibility
- High spreadability
- Low surface tension
- Low reactivity
- Low vapor pressure
- Good heat stability
- Good leveling and easy rubout
- Essentially odorless
- Soluble in a wide range of solvents
- Volatile carrier
- Compatible with a wide range of cosmetic ingredients
- Does not contain ingredients of animal origin (Suitable for Vegan)
- Non-GMO*
- Based on our knowledge available at this time, Dow does not expect this product to be classified as nanomaterial*
- No animal cross contamination
- No porcine contamination
*See Regulatory Datasheet for further details