Shin-Etsu Silicone Selection Guide for Cosmetics

Silicone Powders

These high-performance powders offer the fine properties of silicones, such as good lubricity, softness and high light diffusibility.The feel these powders impart will vary depending on their structure and particle size. The customer has great control in adjusting that feel, which can open the door to the development of more sophisticated cosmetic products.
Shin-Etsu Silicone offers a lineup including water-dispersible Silicone Rubber Powder, Silicone Resin Powder, and Hybrid Silicone Powder with a resin coating on the surface of Silicone Rubber powder.

  • Silicone Powder Water-Suspensions are products in which rubber powder with a soft, silky feel is dispersed in water at high concentrations.The excellent feel and functionality of silicone rubber powder can be easily added to O/W and water-based formulations.
  • Silicone Resin Powder is a spherical powder with a smooth texture. It has low oil absorption and excellent dispersibility. We offer standard silicone resin powder and powder with phenyl groups.
  • Hybrid Silicone Powder (KSP Series) is a powder in which spherical silicone rubber powder is coated with silicone resin.
    It combines the softness of silicone rubber with the smoothness and high dispersibility of silicone resin, providing a high-quality feel. It also provides a high soft-focus benefit, blurring skin imperfections such as wrinkles and pores for a natural finish. We offer a lineup of products with different oil absorption characteristics depending on the type of modifier used in the rubber portion.

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Hybrid silicone powder (Electron microscope image)
Silicone resin powder
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KM-440Silicone rubber powder water Dispersion

Molecular Structure Model of Hybrid Silicone Powder (KSP Series)

  • Product Category

  • Ingredient Function

KSP-100W

KSP-100W

  • Hydrophilic type.
  • This white spherical hybrid silicone powder is made by coating spherical silicone rubber powder with silicone resin.
  • It has excellent flexibility and dispersibility due to the properties of both rubber and resin.
  • Average particle size: 5 μm.

KM-9729

KM-9729

Nonionic dispersion of silicone rubber powder. Can be used as a thickener to impart a smooth feel.

KM-440

KM-440

Water-dispersible alkyl-modified silicone rubber powder. High concentration of powder is dispersed, easily imparting a soft, silky feel and soft focus effect to formulations. Also exhibits high sebum absorption.

KMP-590

KMP-590

White spherical powder of methyl trimethoxysilane polymer. Can be used as a texture modifier. Average particle size: 2 μm.

KMP-591

KMP-591

White spherical powder of methyl trimethoxysilane polymer. Can be used as a texture modifier. Average particle size: 5 μm.

KMP-592

KMP-592

White spherical powder of a polymer of methyl trimethoxysilane containing a phenyl group. It has a higher refractive index than conventional resin powders. It can be used as a tactile modifier. Average particle size: 2 µm.

KSP-100

KSP-100

  • This is a white spherical hybrid silicone powder made by coating spherical silicone rubber powder with silicone resin.
  • It has excellent lubricity, flexibility, and dispersibility due to the characteristics of both rubber and resin.
  • Average particle size: 5 μm

KSP-101

KSP-101

  • This is a white spherical Hybrid Silicone Powder made by coating spherical Silicone Rubber Powder with Silicone Resin.
  • It has excellent lubricity, flexibility, and dispersibility due to the characteristics of both rubber and resin.
  • Average particle size: 12 μm

KSP-102

KSP-102

  • This is a white spherical hybrid silicone powder made by coating spherical silicone rubber powder with silicone resin.
  • It has excellent lubricity, flexibility, and dispersibility due to the properties of both rubber and resin.
  • Average particle size: 30 μm

KSP-105

KSP-105

  • This is a white spherical hybrid silicone powder made by coating spherical silicone rubber powder with silicone resin.
  • It has excellent lubricity, flexibility, and dispersibility due to the characteristics of both rubber and resin.
  • Average particle size: 2 μm

KSP-300

KSP-300

  • This white spherical Hybrid Silicone Powder is made by coating spherical silicone rubber powder with a phenyl group with silicone resin.
  • It has excellent lubricity, flexibility, and dispersibility due to the characteristics of both rubber and resin.
  • Average particle size: 5 μm

KSP-411

KSP-411

  • White spherical Hybrid Silicone Powder is spherical Silicone Rubber Powder coated with Silicone Resin.
  • It has excellent lubricity, flexibility, and dispersibility due to the properties of both rubber and resin.
  • It exhibits high oil absorption properties and is particularly excellent in absorbing silicone fluid.
  • Average particle size: 12μm

KSP-441

KSP-441

  • White spherical Hybrid Silicone Powder is spherical silicone rubber powder with alkyl groups coated with silicone resin.
  • It has excellent lubricity, flexibility, and dispersibility due to the characteristics of both rubber and resin.
  • It exhibits high oil absorption properties and is particularly excellent at absorbing organic oils.
  • Average particle size: 12 μm