Excellent consistency factor, it brings softness and smoothness to emulsions and allows you to prepare "butters" from vegetable oils. It is a texture agent that thickens your creams and balms. It is also very useful in making candles or soaps. When added to a soap mixture, this ingredient will produce a harder bar with a more stability foam.

Inci: Stearic Acid

Main Features

-2 to 20% depending on use (in a cream: 2 to 10%; in a balm: 2 to 30%; in a candle: 10 to 20%)

Insoluble in water

Oil -soluble

Properties :

Thickened, even hardening in balms and sticks.

Emollient: brings softness and smoothness to formulas.

Feeding.

Protector (filmogenic).

Co-emulsifying: participates in emulsification and improves the stability of emulsions.

Brings hardness to soaps.

Consistency factor in candles.