What happens when carbomer encounters surfactants

It is estimated that many girls will be very concerned about the problem of skin care products rubbing mud. There are two main points about rubbing mud, one is that you don't exfoliate, the other is that your skin can't absorb it. In fact, these two statements are wrong, not only did not learn dermatology, also did not learn chemistry.

Many girls think that the thickening of make-up water, the essence of thick liquid is nutritious, wrong! These thick texture is not because they have nutrition, but because they have thickener! In fact, as we drink soup, put some starch into the soup, the soup will be thick, but is starch nutritious? Starch is a thickener in soup. Yogurt is also, most of you think of thick yogurt. Look at the recipe table. There are thickeners, gelatin, agar or sodium carboxymethyl cellulose. I don't particularly love thick mask. When I feel on the face, I feel a paste of xanthan gum and carbomer.

When it comes to capom, it sounds romantic. It's the protagonist of today. Carbomer is the most common thickener in skin care products. What's more, almost all kinds of brands, such as Estee Lauder, or poetry, are also available in various categories, including make-up water, facial mask, cream, lotion and essence.

Carbomer, if used in normal proportion, will not rub mud, and it is very stable. It stops on your face honestly until it is washed off by facial cleanser. But when it met another person, it was not honest. It immediately changed into a "cationic surfactant".

I know that when it comes to such a long word, many girls will faint again. It may be clearer if I explain it this way. Cationic surfactant is the main component of conditioner and softener. It has the function of antistatic and softening. It is also used in many skin care products to enhance the soft and smooth touch of skin. I call it softener for short. You may understand it easily Some.

As soon as Carbomer, a thickener, encounters a softener, it begins to flocculate and precipitate in the environment with pH value greater than 4. In other words, the glue becomes lump by lump, which is what we see as "rubbing mud". So can the skin care products that rub mud be used? If you don't particularly hate rubbing mud, you don't have to worry about it. It's just normal colloidal flocculation, and it won't hurt your skin. Of course, also don't think this can also exfoliate, because rub down is not your cuticle at all.

The principle of rubbing is actually like rubbing mud and Exfoliating Gel. Rubbing clay and Exfoliating Gel on the face, you rubbed and found that began to mud, feel that rubbing is very cool, in fact, are flocculating glue. In fact, these flocculating glue can't effectively remove the old waste cutin. At most, it can stick the dust and grease on the epidermis. These dust and grease can also be washed off with facial cleanser. Wow, it doesn't take so much effort. The cutin produced by poor metabolism is not so easy to remove.

That's all about today's protagonist carbomer exfoliation. Let's go on next time!