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Formulation of Soap

The document discusses formulations for soap bars using ingredients from Dow Personal Care that can improve processing, aesthetics, integrity and the in-use sensory experience. It provides examples of formulations using specific ingredients like ACULYNTM and POLYOXTM and how they enhance properties like reducing cracks and improving foam.

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Formulation of Soap

The document discusses formulations for soap bars using ingredients from Dow Personal Care that can improve processing, aesthetics, integrity and the in-use sensory experience. It provides examples of formulations using specific ingredients like ACULYNTM and POLYOXTM and how they enhance properties like reducing cracks and improving foam.

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Formulating Soap Bars with Dow Personal Care Ingredients

Soap bars remain one of the most popular cleansing products worldwide. Consumers familiar with this product format are very demanding and expect high quality products that provide outstanding cleansing and sensorial performance. As a formulator, you have to address the challenge of providing soap bar formulations that are aesthetically pleasing and stable over time in unknown conditions, while also being able to deliver good cleansing, lathering, easy rinse and nice skin feel. Moreover, your formulation must enable easy manufacture and cost-effectiveness. Dow Personal Care has a range of ingredients that can help you meet these challenges and allow for the production of soap bars with excellent quality. These technologies include ACULYN and METHOCEL Rheology Modifiers, POLYOX Lubricating Polymers and UCARE Conditioning Polymers.

Improving Soap Processing


The addition of a low amount of ACULYN Rheology Modifier provides outstanding performance for paste extrusion. ACULYN Rheology Modifier imparts high plasticity with sufficient cohesiveness for pastes, easily enabling the production of homogenous and uniform soap bars. ACULYN Rheology Modifiers are aqueous-based, acrylic ready-to-use emulsions that can greatly improve soap bar processing with levels between 0.2 and 0.8% of product as supplied. The high molecular weight (Mw) and low glass transition temperature (Tg) of ACULYN Rheology Modifiers provides plastic flow of extrudate and increases the compressibility of plastic feed. Open new possibilities: A tailored balance of plasticity and strength can be used to increase multiple base combinations, stamps and shapes Increase Productivity: Enables higher speed and lower temperature of extrusion, easier slug cutting, reduces flashing and avoids dye adhesion Enable to Reduce Cost: Enhances color development by improving dispersion of components, enabling the reduction of dye content

Improving Soap Aesthetics and Integrity


The addition of ACULYN Rheology modifiers at 0.2 to 0.8% into formulation also helps improve the integrity of the soap bar during its use life: Reduces cracks and the formation of fissures Improves water resistance by reducing the fraction of bar becoming too soft (mushing) Reduces mass loss Allows for a smoother surface with the sensation of a soft touch on the skin

Extruded bars can be dried quickly, reducing cracks and fissures.


The soap bars were immersed, half portion, in natural water bath at 20 C for 10 minutes. The procedure was repeated each 24 hours over a period of seven days. No additive 0.8% ACULYN

Improving in-Use Sensorial Experience


Several of our technologies can be used to improve the sensorial experience of bar soaps:

Medium to high molecular weight Polyethylene Oxide: POLYOX Lubricating Polymers


Used between 0.05% for high molecular weight (POLYOX WSR 301) to 0.1% for medium molecular weight (POLYOX WSR N750), POLYOX Polymers will significantly improve the speed of foam generation, foam stability and feel as well as dry skin feel after rinsing.

100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Preference (%)

Foam Volume Better Feel


0.05% Polyox WSR-301 Control

100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Preference (%)

Foam Quality Overall Preference


0.05% Polyox WSR-301 Control

Panel Testing illustrating perceived benefits for POLYOX Polymers-based soap bar versus control

Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose: METHOCEL Thickeners


Used at around 0.1%, grades of METHOCEL Thickeners such as METHOCEL 40-0202 can visibly improve foam volume, foam stability, foam feel, rinse speed and after-drying feel.

Cationic Hydroxyethyl Cellulose: UCARE Conditioning Polymers


Used at around 0.1%, grades of UCARE Conditioning Polymers such as UCARE LR-30M or UCARE JR-400 can help significantly improve rinsability, after-drying feel, moisturizing, softness and smoothness. Combinations of the above technologies have been shown to provide synergistic benefits: Combining UCARE Conditioning Polymers with METHOCEL Thickeners provides strong moisture feel and foam quality Combining METHOCEL Thickeners and POLYOX Lubricating Polymers provides excellent after-wash feel

No-cracks Soap Bar Formulation


ACULYN 88 Rheology Modifier helps improve the processability of soap bars, virtually guarantees the absence of cracks and improves water resistance.

Ingredients Trade Name


Puricolor Green U3 Titanium Dioxide Fragrance Semi Glycerine Soap Base (14% humidity) ACULYN 88 Rheology Modifier

% wt
0.3 0.5 0.4 98.0 0.8

CTFA / INCI Name


Acetylated Lanolin Titanium Dioxide Parfum / fragrance

Acrylates / Steareth-20 Methacrylate Crosspolymer

Conditioning Soap Bar Formulation


POLYOX WSR N-60K Lubricating Polymer provides excellent slip during application to this conditioning soap bar, as well as helping to reduce cracking.

Ingredients Trade Name


POLYOX WSR N-60K Lubricating Polymer Glucam E-10 Modulan Titanium Dioxide Antioxidant Deionized Water BradPride Coco/Tallow Soap Base 80/20 Preservative and Fragrance

% wt
0.10 1.00 1.00 0.50 0.07 1.00 95.5 q.s.

CTFA / INCI Name


PEG-45M Methyl Gluceth-10 Acetylated Lanolin Titanium Dioxide

Deionized Water

Processing Instructions
POLYOX WSR N-60K Lubricating Polymer provides excellent slip during application to this conditioning soap bar, as well as helping to reduce cracking.

Interested in Learning More?


For more information on ACULYNTM and METHOCEL Rheology Modifiers, POLYOX or UCARE or other products offered by Dow Personal Care, please contact us at the numbers listed below: From North America Call: 1-800-367-3534 Fax: 1-989-832-1465 From Europe, India, Africa and the Middle East Toll-free: +800 3 694 6367* Toll-free from Italy: +800 783 825 Toll-free from South Africa: +800 99 5078 Call: +32 3 450 2240 Fax: +32 3 450 2815 *Toll-free from Austria (00), Belgium (00), Denmark (00), Finland (990), France (00), Germany (00), Hungary (00), Ireland (00), The Netherlands (00), Norway (00), Portugal (00), Spain (00), Sweden (00), Switzerland (00), and the United Kingdom (00). From Asia Pacific Toll-free call: 800 7776 7776** Toll-free fax: 800 7779 7779** Call: +60 3 7958 3392 Fax: +60 3 7958 5598 **Toll-free from all Pacific countries except Indonesia and Vietnam From Latin America Call: +55 11 5188 9222 Fax: +55 11 5188 9749

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Published September 2011

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