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.
• It is available in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA and Vietnam.