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Surfactant vs. Silicone Surfactant

Posted: July 30, 2007

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The lowering of a surface tension is a necessary step toward wetting, detergency, spreading and emulsification. Most formulators are quite comfortable with water-based systems incorporating surfactants.

The same properties can be observed in oil-based systems and it is perfectly legitimate to explore what the CMC of stearyl dimethicone is in isopropyl myristate, or to use cetyl dimethicone to improve wettability of a pigment in oil.