Itaconix® SF 505
Plant-Based Skin and Hair Care
Add 100% plant-based Itaconix® SF 505 to hair care, skin care, and liquid soap products to achieve gentler formulations with better conditioning and creamier, longer-lasting lather. Itaconix® SF 505 is a homopolymer of itaconic acid that is natural, biodegradable, and does not contain any preservatives or additives.
Properties
Advantages
- Improve hair or skin feel with natural conditioning
- Increase foam height, strength, and stability for dense, creamy lather
- Gain desired foam performance with less surfactant
- Reach target viscosity with less added salt
- Reduce surfactant concentration and added salt for formulations
- Gentler on skin and hair
- Increase sustainability of formulations
Applications
Product Information
| INCI | Sodium polyitaconate |
|---|---|
| CAS# | 26099-89-8 |
| pH | 5.2 pH at 10% solid |
| Odor | None |
| Average molecular weight (Mn) | 5000 g/mole |
| % Active | 85% |
| Appearance | Off-white powder |
| Chemical nature | itaconate homopolymer |
| Recommended use level | 2 - 4% |
Superior Skin Conditioning
In a sensory panel study, using paired comparison, Itaconix SF 505 outperformed polyquaternium -10 in several sensory attributes on skin.
Superior Hair Conditioning
Combing and wet stage sensory evaluations were performed on bleached medium brown Caucasian hair to determine soft, smooth feel; attributes were scored as 0=worst, 4=best. Itaconix SF 505 outperformed polyquaternium -10 and guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride for all attributes.
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