Variety wax in use

Cosmetics containing wax on the surface of the skin plays the role of protective and antioxidant. The wax used in the cosmetic industry can significantly improve the viscosity of the product without prejudice to the free movement. Wax is a microcrystalline wax, it has a very high melting point with about 73 degrees Celsius, but it still maintained a very good malleable, though the melting point is obviously improving when it used in the cream, but the cream is obviously soft.

Wax is esters made of high-carbon fatty acids and high fatty alcohol esters. Such esters in cosmetics is stability, adjusting viscosity, less greasy, and so on. Mainly used in cosmetic waxes are carnauba wax, Candelilla wax, jojoba wax esters, beeswax, wood wax, wool and so on. Palm waxes refined product is white or pale yellow, brittle solid, have a pleasant taste. It mainly composed of bees wax acids spent acid waxes and wax esters. It raises the melting point of wax esters in cosmetics, increase hardness, toughness and luster, but also has a tendency to reduce viscosity, plasticity and crystal, as a result it is used in products such as lipstick, mascara, hair removal wax. Candelilla wax is a solid pale yellow translucent or opaque. Composed mainly of carbohydrates, such as wax esters, fatty, high-alcohol.

Petroleum wax is mainly composed of long chain alkanes and isoparaffin. And microcrystalline waxes in addition to normal paraffin, it also contain many carbon-saturated hydrogen compounds with long chain and ring. So the wax melting point, molecular weight and melt viscosity of microcrystalline is higher than petroleum wax. These ingredients commonly used in lipsticks, lipstick, hair wax and powder. Currently, chemical synthesis ways have replaced the crude way to make petroleum jelly and petroleum wax, this not only provides higher stability and safety, but can use a different mix of ingredients to creat a variety of different products to meet the cosmetics and medicine for different needs.

It has many advantages in uses. When it used in cosmetic, it has adhesion resistance, permeability, emulsification, smooth and very fine, si it is widely used in creams, face creams, lipsticks, hair oil, brow pencils, eye shadow, such as production. The sculpting, film-and waterproof, damp-proof, anti-oxidation effect of wax makes it used in food industry and household use as barbeque. It is widely used as an ointment base, proprietary Chinese medicines packaging in pharmaceutical industry. Beeswax is also widely used in electric power industry, electronics industry, printing industry, leather industry, oil industry, paper industry and the candle industry, and so on. If you have interest to okchem, please click here to get more here!