VERSAGEL® MN 1600

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VERSAGEL® MN 1600, a versatile cosmetic ingredient designed for conditioning. In gel form, it serves a crucial role in various personal care applications, including bath and shower products, color cosmetics, hair care, skin care, sun care, and treatment formulations. VERSAGEL® MN 1600 enhances the overall quality of these beauty and care items, providing a smooth and conditioning effect.

INCI Name: Butylene/Ethylene/Styrene Copolymer, Ethylene/Propylene/Styrene Copolymer

Functions: Conditioner

Labeling Claims: Credo Clean Standard

Benefit Claims: Compatibility, Conditioning, Elegant Feel, Emolliency, Film Forming, Imparts Lubricity, Improves Hydrophobic Properties, Long Lasting Fragrance Release, Moisture Retention, Moisturizing, Non-Greasy Feel, Sunlight Stability, Superior Suspension, Thermal Stability, Versatility, Waterproof

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Cosmetic Ingredients Functions

Features & Benefits

Labeling Claims
Product Background

For more than 100 years, Penreco® has specialized in niche product blending to meet customer specific requirements. If you are interested in finding out more about the many attributes of our gelled technology, we can provide supporting clinical studies. Please contact your Penreco sales representative and our technical experts will be happy to find a solution that’s right for you. 

Versagel technology is used in thousands of cosmetic, pharmaceutical and personal care products around the world. Our innovative patented system for thickening and gelling hydrocarbon materials offers an infinite number of customized rheological properties.

  • Clear, colorless (does not discolor with age), hydrophobic, thermally reversible and without syneresis.
  • Creates a film barrier for added moisturization, delivers superior stabilization and suspension properties.
  • Available in multiple viscosity ranges and compatible with many common ingredients.
  • Easier and safer than gels made using metal stearates or fumed silica.
  • Provides enhanced fragrance retention and waterproofing properties.

Applications & Uses

Hair Care Applications
Treatment Product Applications
Applications
  • Color Cosmetics: lipstick, lip polish, lip stain, lip gloss, lip balm, eye shadow, brow shadow, bronzer, foundation
  • Skin Care: depilatory cream, scrubs/exfoliators, serums, moisturizers, creams, lotions
  • Sun Care: sunblock/sunscreen
  • Fragrances.
  • Hair Products
  • Soap and Bath Products
  • Pharmaceuticals/Nutraceuticals
  • Healthcare
Formulating Lasting Partnerships Products Designed with Care

The Penreco product lines of Versagel®, Versastique™, petrolatums and mineral oils are used in numerous lip care applications such as lip oils, glosses, polish, liners, stains, balms, scrubs and lipstick. Each product line is available in multiple viscosity ranges and is suitable for a wide variety of personal care formulations.

For more than 100 years, Penreco has specialized in niche product blending to meet customer specific requirements. We’re proud to offer safe, stable products that provide a moisturizing agent as well as a gel structure for ease of formulation.

Versagel® A Better Way to Formulate

Our gelled technology is used in thousands of cosmetic, pharmaceutical and personal care products around the world. Our process gels various substrates in such a way that it promotes superior moisture retention by creating a continuous film enabling oil to be easily spread with no pooling of the product.

  • Creates a film barrier for added moisturization, delivers superior stabilization and suspension properties.
  • Provides enhanced fragrance retention and waterproofing properties.
  • Versagel MX meets the EU Colipa Lip Care Requirements.
Lip Care
The lip’s exposed membrane structure is different from other skin. Lips do not have the many protective layers of stratum corneum that is found in other skin. Lips also do not have the protection provided by the sweat glands and oil glands. Therefore, the lips are more vulnerable to any exposure to natural elements such as wind, cold, sun, etc. Long-term negligence of the lips will result in chapping, cracking, bleeding and the appearance of premature aging. Because of the structure of their skin, lips require consistent moisturization and protection if they are subject to exposure. We take these needs into account to help us produce our Drakeol® Mineral Oil, Petrolatum, VersastiqueTM and Versagel® that are used in lip care applications.
Versagel® & Versastique™ A BETTER WAY TO FORMULATE

Our gelled technology is used in thousands of cosmetic, pharmaceutical and personal care products around the world.
Our process gels various substrates in such a way that it promotes superior moisture retention by creating a continuous
film enabling oil to be easily spread with no pooling of the product.

  • Creates a film barrier for added moisturization, delivers superior stabilization and suspension properties.
  • Provides enhanced fragrance retention and waterproofing properties.
  • Versagel MX meets the EU Colipa Lip Care Requirements.

Properties

Physical Form
Typical Properties
ValueUnitsTest Method / Conditions
Saybolt Color29+ASTM D156
Specific Gravity (at 25/25 °C)0.8549ASTM D4052
Flash Pointmin. 149°CASTM D92, D93
Viscosity (at 25 ˚C)265,000 - 339,000cPsASTM D2983
Polarity LOG P5.9

Technical Details & Test Data

% TEWL Reduction from Baseline

VERSAGEL® MN 1600 - % TEWL Reduction From Baseline

The rapid and sustained moisturization improvement of Versagel MN results showed a >30% reduction in Transepidermal Water Loss (TEWL), an improvement from baseline statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05

Hydrocarbons, Esters and Natural Hydrocarbons

Versagel products are used in a wide variety of formulations. Product properties such as texture and phase stability depend on several factors like the Versagel used, it’s viscosity, other formulation ingredients, relative amounts of all ingredients, order of addition, and other formulation variables. The calculated Log P (Mol Inspiration) can be used to compare the relative polarity of each Versagel. We hope that formulators find these Log P values helpful when deciding which Versagel to incorporate into their formulations. In general, the non-polar Versagel products have higher Log P values and should mix well with non-polar formulation bases. Surfactants and emulsifiers enable mixing of polar and non-polar substances so they can have a significant impact on formula stability when utilized.