cosmetic
Silicone was first used in cosmetics from the hand cream produced by Dow Corning in 1950. Nowadays, silicone has been successfully applied to the cosmetics fields such as perfume, hair wax, conditioner, lipstick, shaving cream, deodorant, eye shadow, nail polish and sunscreen, with hundreds of categories.
When taking a shower in the morning, the silicone oil contained in shampoo and conditioner makes our hair smoother, while the silicone oil contained in the skin cream applied to the face can cover the facial skin with a very thin gauze mask, thereby Achieve the effect of retaining moisture and protecting the skin; oily foundation, nail polish, sunscreen, and eye shadows contain cyclic dimethylsiloxane, which will not cool the skin when it evaporates, and there is no residue.
In recent years, the application of organosilicon in the daily chemical industry has developed rapidly, and it has become one of the main sources of organosilicon applications. Almost all personal care products contain silicone-containing products, and this kind of functional raw materials with wide applicability continue to expand their application fields with the advent of new products. Because silicone has easy-to-adjust functional properties and excellent sensory properties, and its use is beneficial to the environment and consumer safety, it is increasingly being used to partially or completely replace organic raw materials in cosmetics and scrubbing products. Useful ingredients.
Textile
The towels used to wipe the body after the shower, the clothes we wear and other textiles are also inseparable from silicone materials.
Polydimethylsiloxane is the earliest printing and dyeing auxiliaries to use silicone, which greatly improves the washing durability of clothes; hydroxypolysiloxane improves the wrinkle resistance of clothes; polyether-modified silicone improves the cloth’s durability. Antistatic ability. Fluorine-based modified silicone softener has the effect of deepening fabric dyeing!
Therefore, soft towels, smooth shirts, and antistatic clothes depend on powerful silicone materials.
