4 Easy Steps to make Perfect Emulsions
There are three types – Anionic (CEB-A), Cationic (CEB-C) and Nonionic (CEB-N) – to give you the feel, look, rub-in characteristics and ingredient compatibility that you need. And all three CEB’s provide the safety, stability and product aesthetics that your customers expect from your products.
The CEB’s produce white to off-white emulsions (depending greatly upon the color of the added oil) which can be easily colored as desired with approved colorants. There is also very little base odor to interfere with your added fragrances, botanicals or extracts.
Another major advantage is that you buy and warehouse a single ingredient, making inventory and quality control much easier and less time consuming.
Glass Beads are transparent when they are applied to the skin. With typical mean particle size of 10-13 microns they are able to fit into spaces between larger particles creating a smooth feel while moving other particles around. When there are no other particles present in the formulation, they have a rolling “ball-bearing effect” on the skin creating a smooth silky feel when used in ranges of 4-7% of the overall formulation weight. They are excellent for reducing drag and oily feel while maintaining the oil on the skin without absorption. Density of the hollow glass beads are around 1.1 g/cc which helps it to suspend in liquids of both semi-viscous and viscous formulations like lotions and cremes. Glass Beads have been known for refracting light and might possibly boost SPF values Hollow Glass Beads come in density ranges of 0.60g/cc - 1.2g/cc and sizes range from 10-50 microns