Description
Sepigel 305 is a unique blend of specialty ingredient for modifying viscosity. It is an easy to use ingredient that helps contribute luxurious, high end velvety feel to your formulations. Sepigel 305 can create oil free emulsions, O/W lotions, creams, and even thick body butter bases without the need for heat, or neutralizing any ingredients, or pre-mixing anything.
Sepigel 305 can easily thicken, and emulsify all types of oil phases without heating, it is completely cold process, thereby preserving the benefits of fragile actives and botanical extracts. It can produce gel-creams with a rich, silky texture that is easy to apply and rapidly absorbed by the skin.
It will easily emulsify dimethicone, cyclomethicone, PEG-8, IPM, and even glycerin. You can use it to emulsify anhydrous liquids like acetone, alcohols , and glycerin.
With our Sepigel 305 there’s no reason to use high sheer mixers, or heat and since you are using only cold process methods, your actives, vitamins, botanical extracts may perform, and look better in the formulation.
Sepigel 305 is nonionic, is compatible with most other ingredients, has good stability, and works well over a wide pH range.
Country of Origin: USA
INCI:Polyacrylamide (and) C13-14 Isoparaffin (and) Laureth-7
Appearance: White to Off-White Viscous Liquid
pH: 5.0 to 8.0
Specific Gravity: 1.00-1.05
Manufacturer Suggested Usage: 0.1 – 5%, to formulation after mixing oil and water phases to modify stability and enhance the rheology (texture) of your formulation. Use rapid agitation to thoroughly disperse Sepigel 305 through your formulation for a nice , creamy, gel-like consistency.
Common Uses/ Benefits
Sepigel 305 will have you making all kinds of light, oil free, fast absorbing lotions and skincare treatments for sensitive skin types, or light lotions used as a carrier for other actives. It works well making products for any skin type, and it absorbs well too. Sepigel 305 has a very similar type of emulsion system used in popular anti-acne products.
Sepigel 305 is very efficient, a little goes a long way. At just 2 percent the Sepigel 305 can create perfect lotion viscosity. At only 3% it creates thicker creams, and at 5% makes luxurious, non greasy body butters!
BENEFITS
- Ready-to-use: liquid and pre-neutralized
- Cold or hot process
- Wide pH range: 3-12
- Multifunctional: thickening, stabilising and texturizing
- Good thickening agent in aqueous medium
- Stabilizes and emulsifies all types of oil phase
- Makes very light sprayable fluid to thick textures
- Compatible with solvents, AHAs, sun filters and sunscreens, pigments, etc.
Applications
- Creams
- Lotions
- Gels
- Non greasy body butters
- Gel-creams
- Shaving creams
- Gelled nail polish remover
- Gelled cologne aftershaves
Storage: Store in a cool, dark place. It should not be exposed to excessive heat or cold.
PLEASE NOTE: This information is for information purposes and not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Our products are for external use in cosmetic and personal care formulations only, unless otherwise indicated. Even though we do not offer our products for consumption (internal use), we will always source only top quality pharmaceutical / food grade ingredeints because the grade or purity of any material, is of importance for skin care as it is for internal use or consumption. Do not be fooled by low priced ingredients that do not deliver performance or nutrition, just because it’s same name and may even have the same CAS Registry Number (CAS RN) does not mean that any two are equal in quality or purity.
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