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  • super stiff foam

    Posted by JellyFishKarma on July 31, 2023 at 12:26 pm

    What materials can I use to stiffen foam created through a foamer component. What I have created looks like the standard but the client wants more stiffness? are there raw materials that will aide with this?

    ketchito replied 9 months, 2 weeks ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • evchem2

    Member
    August 1, 2023 at 11:50 am

    What surfactants are you currently using and are you using any polymers?

  • JellyFishKarma

    Member
    August 1, 2023 at 5:20 pm

    CAPB. they want a super stiff foam like meringue pie..

  • ketchito

    Member
    August 2, 2023 at 6:40 am

    If you want the foam itself to be stiffer, then check at shaving cream formulas…there’s an specific combo they use to make it that way. Or perhaps I’m getting your question wrong.

  • JellyFishKarma

    Member
    August 2, 2023 at 5:42 pm

    thank you. I want the foam to be able to stand on its own for awhil before getting “watery”. I will look in to the pump style shaving creams. I can’t use aerosol

    • evchem2

      Member
      August 2, 2023 at 8:59 pm

      Adding polymer like xanthan or HPMC can help reduce drainage and might give the foam a ‘stiffer’ look by leaking water more slowly?

    • ketchito

      Member
      August 2, 2023 at 10:53 pm

      You need to strenghten the interface you form around air. This can be done using different ingredients, like water soluble polymers (with or without hydrophobic modification), by adding different co-surfactants, etc. But to know what can work in your system, we need to know what’s in your formula.

      • This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by  ketchito.

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