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Luzenac talcs for Personal Care
Talc has been used by the general public for centuries as a body powder. With its focus on innovation, Luzenac has widened the scope of talc usage in personal care, creating new solutions for soaps and syndets, make-up and pharmaceuticals that correspond to the needs of today's consumer. In recent years, Luzenac has been breaking new ground in the personal care field with a number of innovations such as the Steasilk® range for soaps and syndets, and French Velvet®, a new delaminated talc for make-up applications.
For more information, or to discuss the appropriate talc product for your requirement, please contact our personal care team. |
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Body powder
- Luzenac talcs, with their soft, slippery feel, are best known to the general public as body powders. Applied after bathing, talc prevents chafing and imparts a pleasant, soothing, cool sensation to the skin.
- Luzenac talcs are excellent fragrance carriers for scented body powders. The surfaces of the talc platelets retain the perfume with the minimum loss of potency.
- Luzenac talcs are also used as inert carriers for active ingredients in medicated powders.
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Make-up
- Luzenac offers a full line of cosmetic talcs to meet the make-up formulator's requirements in terms of:
- softness,
- spreadability,
- optical properties (i.e. the degree of matt/gloss and transparency/opacity required).
- Luzenac's new French Velvet® talc is a cosmetic talc with a difference. Specially developed to impart exceptional silkiness and improved translucency, it has excellent covering power and adsorption qualities, and adds a mild lustre effect to cosmetics.
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Pharmaceuticals
- Luzenac talcs are ideal excipients because they are inert. They also act as glidants to control powder flow and as lubricants for tableting.
- Luzenac offers a complete product line of pharmaceutical grades which meets the specifications of the American, Japanese and European pharmacopoeia.
- Luzenac talcs are used in enteric coatings for targeted delivery of drugs.
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Soap and syndets
- Luzenac's Steasilk® product line can reduce soap and syndet production costs without diminishing soap performance.
- Steasilk® can also enhance soap performance, by producing a creamier lather and softer skin feel.
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