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Fillers for Color Cosmetics and Skincare
Saint-Gobain Boron Nitride Powder Solutions offers Standard Platelet (SP) Powders for all types of color cosmetic and skin care formulations. These powders provide a luxurious, soft feel, enhanced adherence and a wide range of optical properties, from translucent to opaque, from matte to high-luster.
Key Features and Benefits of Boron Nitride in Cosmetics
| BN Feature | Benefit |
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| Lamellar crystal structure, derived from mineral | Improves texture and coverage in all types of color cosmetics, including mineral based makeup |
| Low coefficient of friction |
Soft and lubricious effect in formulations for even spreading and superior smoothness and adherence to the skin -- especially useful for "longer lasting" claim. Aids compaction of pressed powder |
| Available in a variety of particle size distributions and crystal morphologies | Each grade offers a unique optical benefit from opaque, matt or translucent finish with <6um having a soft focus effect |
| Oil absorbent | Reduces tack of skin creams containing high levels of emolients |
| Adherent | Superior adherence compared to spherical nylon, PMMA, or silica spheres |
| Chemically inert and photo-stable | Long shelf life of formulations |
| Non-toxic | Perfect fit for all cosmetic and skin care formulations, including lip products |
| Refractive index 1.7 | Subtle illuminating effect -- brightening |
Saint-Gobain Boron Nitride powders are ideal for emulsion, powder, lipstick, pencil, skin care and after-bath formulations. They are excellent alternatives to standard materials such as talc, mica, and bismuthoxychloride and provide slip, payoff, adherence and soft feel. They are excellent additives for powder pressing operations. The lubricating nature of flat hexagonal platelets aids in compaction, transfer and removal of pressed powders. The soft, slippery feel of BN powders can improve the way transfer resistant products feel when applied, offering the consumer long wearing cosmetics that also feel soft and natural.
| Particle Size | Benefit of Saint-Gobain BN in the Formula | Finished Product |
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| <6um |
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| 6 - 8um |
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| 12 - 16um |
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| 30+um |
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