Vida-Care™ HPCG

Hydroxypropyl Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride. Vida-Care™ HPCG by Alfa chemicals acts as a conditioning agent. It is produced from Guar, an abundant and renewable leguminous plant that thrives in hot and dry climates.

• It is water-dispersible naturally-derived cationic polymer.
• The cationic functionality is added to provide substantivity to skin and hair to provide multiple benefits in rinse-off applications.
• Hydroxypropyl functionality allows for clear aqueous solutions and improved surfactant compatibility.
• It is hygroscopic, helping to deliver humectancy to the skin and hair, providing moisturization benefits and enhancing wet and dry combability.
• With a medium-low molecular weight and low charge density, it is an excellent choice for delivering conditioning benefits to hair.
• It offers soft, silky-smooth conditioning with volumizing and moisturizing effects.
• In rinse-off skincare, it provides a lubricious wet-skin feel and a soft, silky-smooth dry-skin feel.
• Additionally, it results in low build-up on hair compared to other cationic gums.
• It is suitable for use in all rinse-off applications, offering clear formulations, substantivity to hair and skin, excellent surfactant compatibility, enhanced foam quality, lubricity, and viscosity increase.
• It can be used in a variety of applications, including shampoos and body washes, facial cleansers, leave-on and rinse-off conditioners, shaving creams and foams, and baby-care products.
• Vida-Care™ HPCG has a shelf life of 2 years.