Essential ingredients… Unlimited potential - Bluestar Silicones

MIRASIL ® SILICONES FOR PERSONAL CARE
Essential ingredients…
Unlimited potential
Bluestar Silicones. Delivering Your Potential.

Bluestar Silicones
With more than 50 years of expertise in silicones
technology, Bluestar Silicones is one of the largest,
integrated producers of quality silicones products
in the world.
Silicones are considered an essential part of any
personal care product formulation for performance
and benefits desired by consumers.
Mirasil ® silicone products
are geared to the cosmetics
market and are specially
formulated for purity and safety,
as well, as performance.
Mirasil ® silicone are:
Protective and long-lasting: the filmogenic
properties of Mirasil ® , together with high water
resistance, provide skin and hair with maximum
protection. Additionally, by carefully choosing the
type of functionalized silicone, these properties
can be imparted to either water-based or oil-based
products.
Compatible and Easy to formulate: Mirasil ®
silicones are fully compatible with commonly used
cosmetic ingredients.
Silky touch: the unusual surface and flow
behaviour of Mirasil ® bring incomparable sensorial
properties and benefits.
Non-stick, non-transfer: Mirasil ® concentrate
themselves over the surface when applied to skin
or hair, reducing the stickiness of some formulas.

Silicones touch every application
area of personal care
Hair care
ò Shampoos
ò Rinse-off and leave-in conditioners
ò Styling gels, mousses and fixatives
Skin care
ò Sun screens
ò Skin creams / Anti-aging lotions
ò Color cosmetics
ò Body washes
Antiperspirants, deodorants (AP/DO)
Wet wipes
Mirasil ® Silicones for use in personal
care products
Mirasil ® silicone products deliver the performance
and benefits most desired by personal care
companies and consumers.
ò Silky soft skin feel
ò Smooth, non-greasy lubrication
ò Longer-lasting cosmetics and sunscreens
ò Excellent spreadability
ò Shine for hair
ò Soft matte finish for cosmetics
ò Hair manageability (anti-static and combability)
ò Protection and restoration for hair and skin
These benefits evoke the emotional response
in the consumer driving sales of beauty products.

Hair care
ò Hair styling aids
ò Shampoos
ò Rinse and leave-in conditioners
ò Hair treatments
Mirasil ® silicones are ideal for clear shampoos and
conditioners, two-in-one shampoos/conditioners,
and hair styling aids. They are easy to incorporate
into hair care products that need to offer these key
features:
• Soft and silky smooth hair
• Improved hair body and combability
• Shine
• Fly away reduction
• Longer lasting hair color
• Restoration and protection
Mirasil ® offers a range of properties that are suitable
for many hair types.
Silicones for face and body care
formulations
Mirasil ® Cyclomethicone
Mirasil ® Dimethicones – Low, medium,
and high viscosities
Mirasil ® Dimethicone Copolyols
Mirasil ® Dimethicones Silicone Gum Blends
Mirasil ® Cyclomethicone Silicone Gum Blends
Mirasil ® Phenyl Fluids
Mirasil ® Simethicone
See our product selector guide on the inside back cover
for recommendations on using Mirasil ® products.
Silicones for hair care formulations
Mirasil ® Cyclomethicone
Mirasil ® Micro-Emulsion
Mirasil ® Dimethicones – Low, medium,
and high viscosities
Mirasil ® Dimethicone Copolyols
Mirasil ® Cyclomethicone Silicone Gum Blends
Mirasil ® Phenyl Fluids
See our product selector guide on the inside back cover
for recommendations on using Mirasil ® products.
Personal care products
Skin care
ò Face and body lotions and creams
ò Color cosmetics
ò Facial cleansers
ò Shower gels / bubble baths
ò Sun care products
Using Mirasil ® silicones in face and body care
products offer the following formulation benefits:
• High spreading
• Reduced tackiness
• Reduced greasiness
• Smooth feel
• Emolliency
• Substantivity
• Non-comedogenic
• Non-irritating
• Water resistance
• SPF enhancement
• Anti-aging
For the consumer, this means products which
are silky and pleasant to wear, convenient and
easy to apply, natural and longer-lasting.

Antiperspirants
and deodorants
Skin-friendly benefits, in addition to performance,
are an important part of antiperspirant and
deodorant attributes. Mirasil ® silicones bring
these skin-friendly benefits:
• Light silky feel
• Reduced tackiness
• Fast absorption
• Anti-whitening on skin
• Easy to spread
• Low wetness
• Non-irritating
Wet wipes
Mirasil ® silicones offer distinct value-added benefits
to the emerging, innovative wet wipe market.
These benefits include:
• Long-lasting film barrier properties
• Wash-off resistance
• Smooth feel
• Cleansing
Silicones for wet wipe formulations
Mirasil ® Cyclomethicone
Mirasil ® Dimethicones – Low viscosities
Mirasil ® Dimethicone Copolyols
See our product selector guide on the inside back cover
for recommendations on using Mirasil ® products.
Silicones for antiperspirant and
deodorant formulations
Mirasil ® Cyclomethicone
Mirasil ® Dimethicones – Low, medium,
and high viscosities
See our product selector guide on the inside back cover
for recommendations on using Mirasil ® products.

Anti-aging
As the carrier for the active
ingredients in anti-aging products,
silicone provides additional
moisturizing and skin protection
benefits that help skin maintain a
smooth, youthful appearance.
Wet wipe
With improved sensory properties,
wash-off resistance, cleansing
efficiency, and delivery of actives,
silicones offer the development
of more specialized, value-added
wet wipes.
Hair styling
Hair styling products
with silicones give
excellent shine,
smoothness,
volume, and fixative
performance.
Skin care
Make-up utilizing
silicones are longerlasting,
non-sticky,
non-oily and water
resistant.
Hair care
Silicone derivatives improve
sensorial properties and
provide restorative, conditioning
and protective benefits for
formulations such as 3-in-1
shampoos (shampooing, rinsing
and conditioning).
Sun screen
As the delivery vehicle for
active ingredients, silicones
improve the long-lasting, water
resistant SPF protection of sun
care products.

Mirasil ® silicone products
Selector guide
Product name
Mirasil ® CM 5
Emulsions – Oil-in water silicone emulsions
Mirasil ® ADM E-P
Dimethicones – A wide variety of viscosities
Mirasil ® DM 50
Mirasil ® DM 100
Mirasil ® DM 350
Mirasil ® DM 1000
Mirasil ® DM 5000
Mirasil ® DM 60000
Mirasil ® DM 300000
Mirasil ® DM 500000
Dimethicones Copolyols – Low and high molecular weight silicone modified polyethers
Mirasil ® DMCO
High molecular weight gums in cyclopentasiloxane or low viscosity Dimethicones
Mirasil ® C-DM
Mirasil ® C-DML
Mirasil ® C-DMB
Phenyl Fluids – Phenyl-functional silicones
Mirasil ® C-DPDM
Mirasil ® P-DPDM
Mirasil ® PTM
Simethicone – Polydimethylsiloxane fluid and silica compound
Mirasil ® SM
Region
Avail.
World
World
World
World
World
EU, LA
World
World
World
World
EU, NA
World
INCI / CTFA name Solid content in %
High purity products for use in a variety of applications and general use products
Cyclopentasiloxane
Water, Amodimethicone
(and) Trideceth-6
Dimethicone
Dimethicone
PEG/PPG – 22/24
Dimethicone
Cyclopentasiloxane
(and) Dimethicone
Cyclopentasiloxane
(and) Dimethiconol
Cyclopentasiloxane
(and) Dimethicone
Cyclopentasiloxane (and)
Diphenyl Dimethicone
Phenyl Trimethicone (and)
Diphenyl Dimethicone
Phenyl Trimethicone
Simethicone
ca. 40%
100%
100%
100%
ca. 30% (Dimethicone)
ca. 15% (Dimethiconol)
ca. 15% (Dimethicone)
ca. 15%
(Diphenyl Dimethicone)
100%
100%
Spreading
Í
Í
ò
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
Skin Feel
(soft)
Í
Í
Í
Í
ò
Í
Í
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
Hair Feel
(soft)
ò
Í
Í
Í
ò
Í
Í
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
Hair
Shine
Í
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
Í
Í
Í
Properties
Conditionning
Mirasil ® HMS World Hexamethyldisiloxane Í Í ò ò
Mirasil ® D-DML World
Dimethicone
(and) Dimethiconol
ò Recommended Í Highly recommended
ò
ò
Í
Í
Í
ò
Í
Í
Í
Í
Í
Skin-Hair
Protection
100% ò Í ò ò Í Í
ò
Í
Í
Í
Í
ò
ò

Hair
Repairing
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
Í
Í
Waterproof
ò
Í
Í
Í
Í
Í
Í
Í
Long
Lasting
Í
Í
Í
Í
Shampoos
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
Í ò
Hair
Conditioners
ò
Í
ò
ò
ò
Í
Í
Í
ò
ò
Í
Hair Sprays
(non aerosol/
Styling
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
Í
Shower Gels/
Bubble Baths
ò
ò
ò
ò
Facial Cleansers/
Make up
Removers
Í
ò
Í
Í
Applications
Creams/
Lotion
ò
ò
Í
Í
Í
ò
ò
Í
Í
Í
Sun Care
Creams/
Lotion
Í
Í
ò
Í
Í
ò
ò
Antiperspirants/
Deodorants
ò Í ò Í
Í Í Í Í Í ò
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
Í
Í
ò
ò

Perfumes
ò
ò
ò
Shaving
Products
ò
ò
Í
Í
ò
ò
Make-up
Í
ò
ò
ò
ò
ò
ò
ò
Í
ò
Wet
Wipes
Í
ò
Í
Í
Í
Comments
Medium volatile silicone. Excellent spreading properties. Imparts smooth and silky feel, non-comedogenic emollient.
Improves wet-combing and imparts soft feel to the hair.
Í Í ò Non greasy volatile carrier providing a soft silky feel. Non comedogenic emollient. Improves hair wet combing.
Í ò
Microemulsion (O/W) of an amine functionalized silicone. Easy handling by simple addition under stirring in the water phase of personal care
formulations. Allows transparent formulations. Compatible with various types of surfactants. Is recommended for use in hair repairing products.
Improves both wet and dry-combing.
Low viscosity Dimethicones. Impart smooth and silky feel to the skin. Allow skin respiration. Impart soft feel and shine to the hair.
Help to improve the water-resistance properties in sun care emulsions. Improve dry-combing.
Medium and high viscosity Dimethicones. Impart smooth and silky feel to the skin. Allow skin respiration. Impart soft feel and shine
to the hair. Is recommended for use in hair repairing products. Improve dry-combing. Help to improve the water-resistance properties
in sun care emulsions.
High molecular weight, water soluble silicone polyether with emulsifying properties. Helps to reduce the skin irritation in foaming products.
Easy to handle solution of a highly viscous Dimethicone in Cyclopentasiloxane. Imparts smooth and dry feel to the skin and soft feel
and shine to the hair. Helps to improve the water-resistance and long-lasting properties in sun care emulsions. Improves wet and dry combing.
Easy to handle solution of a highly viscous Dimethiconol gum in Cyclopentasiloxane. Imparts smooth and dry feel to the skin and soft feel
and shine to the hair. Helps to improve the water-resistance and long-lasting properties in sun care emulsions. Improves wet and dry combing.
Easy to handle solution of a highly viscous Dimethicone gum in Cyclopentasiloxane. Imparts smooth and dry feel to the skin and soft feel
and shine to the hair. Helps to improve the water-resistance and long-lasting properties in sun care emulsions. Improves wet and dry combing.
Easy to handle high viscosity Dimethiconol gum solution in low visosity Dimethicone. Improves spreading and aesthetics of formulation,
imparts a soft silk feel to skin. Provides a protective non occlusive water repellency.
Easy to handle high viscosity Diphenyl Dimethicone gum solution in Cyclopentasiloxane. Imparts a unique silky skin feel and soft feel and
shine to the hair. Is recommended for use in hair repairing products. Helps to improve the water-resistance properties, the long-lasting effect
and SPF booster in sun care emulsions.
Easy to handle high viscosity Diphenyl Dimethicone gum solution in Phenyl Trimethicone. Imparts a unique silky skin feel in AP/DO and soft feel
and shine to the hair. Is recommended for use in hair styling products. Helps to improve the water-resistance properties, the long-lasting effect
and SPF booster in sun care emulsions.
Fluid silicone. Provides shine in hair care formulations. Helps to improve water-resistance and to boost the SPF in sun care emulsions.
Helps reduce excess foaming in filling and packaging, as well as during product application and use.

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Bluestar Silicones for personal care:
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Bluestar Silicones makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness of such information or as
to the compatibility of such information with the user’s intended application : information is supplied on an “as-is” basis
and is not binding on Bluestar Silicones. Nothing contained herein is intended as a recommendation to use the products
so as to infringe any patent.
Bluestar Silicones assumes no liability for users’ violation of patent or other rights and disclaims any liability for loss, injury
or damage which may result from the use of the products. Therefore, information contained herein must not be used as a
substitute for necessary prior tests which are the sole responsibility of the user and which alone can ensure that a product
is suitable for a given use. SIL
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