Disteardimonium Hectorite ●
TL;DR. This ingredient is primarily a rheology modifier and suspending agent for anhydrous systems, especially oils, pigments, and sunscreen dispersions. It helps build gel texture, reduce settling, and improve payoff in makeup and stick formats.
What does Disteardimonium Hectorite do in a cosmetic formula?
This ingredient is primarily a rheology modifier and suspending agent for anhydrous systems, especially oils, pigments, and sunscreen dispersions. It helps build gel texture, reduce settling, and improve payoff in makeup and stick formats.
Is Disteardimonium Hectorite clean?
From a clean-beauty perspective, this ingredient is usually viewed as acceptable but not especially natural, because it is a chemically modified mineral clay. It has low typical skin-irritation concern in finished formulas, though powder handling is more relevant during manufacturing than consumer use.
Is Disteardimonium Hectorite sustainable?
This material starts with mined clay and is modified with fatty quaternary components that may come from vegetable, animal, or petrochemical supply chains depending on the grade. It is not readily biodegradable in the usual organic-chemical sense, and its sustainability profile centers on mining impact, traceability of fatty feedstocks, and inert particulate persistence.
Is Disteardimonium Hectorite COSMOS-approved?
It is not a straightforward COSMOS-organic fit, and COSMOS-natural acceptance depends on the exact grade, derivatization route, and supplier documentation. From a Green Chemistry lens, it offers efficient low-dose structure building, but it is limited by mining inputs, chemical modification, and limited biodegradability.
How does Disteardimonium Hectorite work chemically?
This ingredient is an organophilic layered clay made by exchanging mineral clay cations with long-chain quaternary ammonium groups, which lets it swell and form a thixotropic network in oils. Typical use is about 0.5 to 5% in anhydrous formulas, often with high shear and a polar activator to fully develop viscosity and suspension.
Last updated 2026-05-13