VAVS - Vegetable Alternative to Volatile Silicone

Coco-Caprylate/Caprate (and) Hydrogenated Olive Oil Unsaponifiables. VAVS - Vegetable Alternative to Volatile Silicone distributed by DKSH is a preservative-free skin moisturizer and emollient. It is a natural oil derived from olives. It is an excellent alternative to volatile silicone with properties close to cyclomethicone.

• It provides soft, light, and non-greasy feel with quick skin penetration and dry after feel with long lasting silky feel and high stability to temperature.
• It is vegetable origin, from renewable sources.
• It restores skin suppleness and elasticity.
• It is suitable with all skin types.
• It imparts great sensorial performance and spreadability to formulations, non-interfering with formulations viscosity.
• It helps reducing the whitening effects of some formulations (like silicone’s low surface tension) and anti-soaping effect.
• It allows to formulate clear foaming products, unlike some silicones (with which formulations get cloudy).
• It is compatible with most surfactants used in foaming products (good foaming properties compatibility).
• It is compatible with most oily ingredients (with different polarities), unlike silicones.
• It is used in skin-, body-, sun- care and after sun-, men’s care, colored cosmetics and baby care products.
• VAVS - Vegetable Alternative to Volatile Silicone is Ecocert and COSMOS approved.
• It has a shelf life of 24 months.