What is Carbomer?

Carbomer is a very important class of rheology modifiers.

It is a loose white powder, acidic, hygroscopic and with a special slight odour, soluble in water, ethanol and glycerol.

When carbomer is dispersed in water, the coiled polymer stretches out and expands in volume.

Neutralised carbomer is the gel matrix, which not only has important uses such as thickening and suspension, but also has a simple process and good stability, so it is widely used in daily life, and its uses are as follows:

Carbomer gel

I. Application in hand-free disinfection gel

With the outbreak of the Carbomer is often contacted in our daily life is free hand sanitisation gel. Carbomer can become a good gel matrix after being neutralised by alkaline substances, with fast drug release, non-greasy . Easy to spread, no irritation to the skin and mucous membranes and other characteristics, hand sanitising solution after adding carbomer to make it thicker, lower mobility, more convenient to use, the effect of disinfection will be better.

Second, in the application of skin care products

Carbomer is also widely used in cosmetics, it not only allows a variety of ingredients in skin care products together, in a smooth state that does not affect each other, but also to improve the viscosity of skin care products, skin care products such as water, milk, not as fluid as water, moderate emulsifiers are not easy to bring damage to our skin.

Third, in the application of medicine

Carbomer is also a good helper in medical application. Carbomer as the main raw material of coupling agent matrix, with the human skin, no damage to the probe, no contamination of clothing, coated with lubrication, viscosity is appropriate, the preparation of stable and other advantages. Using the emulsifying, thickening and rheology improver properties of carbomer, it can make better diffusion and absorption of suppository drugs. In solid dosage form, Carbomer has an intrinsic cross-linking structure, its good viscosity and hydrophilic gel properties make it have better properties of slow and controlled release, which can effectively improve the local drug concentration.