Grant Industries' Empowering Formulas

Apr 13th, 2018
Brooke Schleehauf
Grant Industries
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Grant offers several "super hero" solutions to defeat various skin and formulation challenges. For example, Granpowder EDC-600 (INCI: Divinyldimethicone/Dimethicone/Phenylsilsesquioxane Crosspolymer) offers “super” slip properties. Granpowder QSC (INCI: Polymethylsilsesquioxane/Silica Crosspolymer), has unique stabilizing powers, and Gransil SBG-11 (INCI: Dimethicone (and) Polysilicone-11 (and) Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter) is a heightened sensory elastomer system.

For more information, head to www.grantinc.com.

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