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Cosmetics & Personal care

UCARE™ Extreme Polymer

Provided by Dow

About

UCARE™ Extreme Polymer is a conditioning agent suitable for wide range of cosmetic and toiletry applications. It also acts as a rheology modifier. Shelf life: 24 months.

Benefits:

  • It is a polymeric, quaternary ammonium salt of hydroxyethylcellulose
  • Derived from non-GMO and PEFC certified wood pulp
  • Provides equivalent hair conditioning to some silicones
  • Enhances silicone deposition and dry and wet hair combing especially on damaged hair
  • It restores hair hydrophobicity and reduces hair breakage
  • Improves hair alignment and manageability
  • Offers soft styling benefit such as curl retention in leave-on formulations
  • Shows ease of formulation and does not need emulsification
  • Enables clear products
  • Increases natural content of formulation
  • Exhibits inherent primary biodegradability (>20%) with pre-adaptation according to OECD test

Typical Applications:

Recommended for shampoos, styling products and body washes. It is also suitable for both rinse-off and leave on conditioners.

CAS Number68610-92-4
Physical form
  • Powder
Benefits
  • combing (dry)
  • combing (wet)
  • curl retention
  • manageability
Applications
      • Skin care
      • Toiletries
      • Hair care
Grade NameExtreme Polymer
INCI Name
  • POLYQUATERNIUM-10
Category
  • Conditioning Agents
  • Thickeners & Stabilizers

About dow

Dow combines one of the broadest technology sets in the industry with asset integration, focused innovation and global scale to achieve profitable growth and become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company. Our portfolio of performance materials, industrial intermediates and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for our customers in high-growth segments, such as packaging, infrastructure and consumer care. We operate 113 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 37,000 people.

UCARE™ Extreme Polymer | Dow Thickener | Safic-Alcan

UCARE™ Extreme Polymer by Dow is a conditioning agent. INCI: Polyquaternium-10. Datasheet (TDS), SDS and samples from Safic-Alcan.

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