Acrylonitrile/Methyl Methacrylate/Vinylidene Chloride Copolymer
Expancel microspheres
Characteristics
- INCI
- Acrylonitrile/Methyl Methacrylate/Vinylidene Chloride Copolymer
- Ru.
- Expancel microspheres
- CAS
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25214-39-5
This is the substance number in the Chemical Abstracts Service registry. The CAS number uniquely identifies a substance regardless of language, trade name, or synonyms.
- Functions
- not reported
Description
Thermoplastic (a type of plastic that becomes moldable at higher temperatures and solidifies upon cooling) microspheres (tiny balls) that are generally used as lightweight fillers. As for cosmetics, we have found a patent from Living Proof that claimes a hair spray composition with our microsphere to "surprisingly increase the volume of hair".
Other than that, the L'Oreal group seems to like and use Acrylonitrile/Methyl Methacrylate/Vinylidene Chloride Copolymer as a hollow, gas-filled (probably filled with isobutane) microsphere as it improves the skin feel of aqueous gel formulas and makes them very comfortable and smooth.
Products with Acrylonitrile/Methyl Methacrylate/Vinylidene Chloride Copolymer (112 total)
Most often found in L'Oreal products (29 items)
