Product Description

If you have ever browsed the ingredient list on the back of cosmetics, skin care or hair care products, you may have noticed the word: carbomer. For most people, you may not be familiar with it, so you may have completely ignored this ingredient, but carbomer is actually present in a large number of skin care products. Carbomer is a product that is safe for all types of skin. It is a fluffy white powder that allows other ingredients in your product to work together to get the job done.
 
What is carbomer?
It is a series of polymers made of acrylic. It is a white fluffy powder, but it is often used as a gel in various cosmetics and personal care products. These cosmetics and personal care products are used for skin, hair, nails and cosmetics as well as Dentifrice.
 
Benefits of carbomer in skin care products
1. Make skin care products have high-efficiency and long-lasting suspension stability, acrylic resin cross-linked polymer can improve the suspension of silicone oil, compared with cellulose and guar gum, the suspension stability is higher;
2. It has salt-tolerant performance, and can still maintain a high viscosity in a system with salt;
3. Good antiseptic performance, not easy to be decomposed by microorganisms, and easy to store;
4. It has excellent rheology, can adjust the viscosity of the product, improve the thixotropy of the gel system, and improve the stability of the product;
5. Thicken or homogenize the consistency of the product. It is a thickener that helps to control the consistency or viscosity and fluidity of many cosmetics;
6. Prevent product separation, help disperse and suspend insoluble solids in the liquid, and prevent the oil and liquid part of the solution from separating. This useful property is what makes thinner moisturizers such as lotions work;
7. Improve the texture of the product, it can easily absorb and retain water, and can greatly expand when suspended in water, up to ***0 times its original volume.
 
Although carbomers do not play a big role in improving skin conditions or treating existing problems or concerns, they can provide benefits when they appear in certain products. As long as they are regarded as supporting roles in movies or alternate singers in albums, they may not be the protagonists of the show, but without their help, the whole thing cannot really come together.