This entry shows data from the EU CosIng database. An editorial description has not been written and reviewed yet.
Functions
- Humectant
- Retaining and/or preserving the moisture in a product during use.
- Plasticiser
- Softening and making supple synthetic polumers that otherwise could not be easily deformed, spread or worked out.
- Viscosity controlling
- Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
- Adhesive
- Tending to unite/bind/bond surfaces together.
- Dispersing (non-surfactant)
- Facilitating the dispersion of solids in liquids. They function primarily by coating the solid through the process of adsorption, thus changing the surface characteristic of the suspended solid.
- Surface modifier
- Applied to other cosmetic components to make them more hydrophilic or hydrophobic, or to modify their physical/chemical properties (in some cases, surface modifiers may form a covalent bond with substrates).
EU regulation
This ingredient is not listed in the annexes of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 in the CosIng data.