INCI Name: Dimethicone
Colorless, clear polydimethylsiloxane fluid
Features & Benefits :
- Ease of application and rubout
- Ease of buffing
- Enhances color
- High water repellency
- High compressibility
- High shearability without breakdown
- High spreadability and compatibility
- Low environmental hazard
- Low fire hazard
- Low reactivity and vapor pressure
- Low surface energy
- Good heat stability
- Essentially odorless, tasteless and nontoxic
- Soluble in a wide range of solvents
- Imparts soft, velvety skin feel
- Spreads easily on both skin and hair
- De-soaping (prevents foaming during rubout)
- High dielectric strength
- High damping action
- Oxidation-, chemical- and weather-resistant
Applications :
- Active ingredient in a variety of automotive, furniture, metal and specialty polishes in
paste, emulsion and solvent-based polishes and aerosols
- Various applications including cosmetic ingredient, elastomer and plastics lubricant,
electrical insulating fluid, foam preventive or breaker, mechanical fluid, mold release
agent, surface active agent, and solvent-based finishing and fat liquoring of leather
