Acrylates Copolymer

Description:

Acrylates Copolymer is a lightly cross-linked, alkali swellable, anionic acrylic acid polymer emulsion that is lightly crosslinked. This product is an excellent acrylic rheology modifier that imparts thickening, suspension and stabilization properties to surfactant based cleansing systems and emulsions. This property is not typically achieved with standard powdered Acritamer.

Acrylates Copolymer offers the following features and benefits:

Makes clear formulations that are ideal for transparent shampoos, body washes and cleansers.
Excellent for stabilizing difficult to stabilize ingredients in surfactant systems like silicones.
Good Suspension properties for beads, silica, pearlizing agents, Zinc Pyrithione and other insoluble ingredients in shampoos and body wash products .
Has excellent salt and surfactant tolerance making it an ideal thickener and stabilizer for shampoos and body wash in a typical use concentration ranging between 3 -10 %.
Effective across a broad range of pH.
Offers good compatibility with a wide range of cationic conditioning agents.

CAS No.: 25035-69-2

Application:

Acrylates Copolymer is good for several suggested applications: