This article describes MQ resins, a series of silicone polymers that find application in many personal care formulations.
Silicone polymers
The first concept that one needs to understand in dealing with silicone polymers is a concept called ‘construction’. Specifically, construction relates to the monomers that are used to construct a silicone polymer. The selection of the type and number of monomer types in a specific polymer will determine the structure of the polymer. The structure of the polymer in turn determines the functional properties and how the polymer will behave in formulations.
The shorthand for the construction of silicone homopolymers is shown in Figure 1.1
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