PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate is a methyl glucoside derivative (ethylene oxide on a methyl glucoside backbone), a vegetable-based liquid thickener with a three-dimensional structure. This structure provides a more efficient viscosity response in surfactant-based formulations versus the typical two-dimensional structured thickeners. It is highly functional and reasonably practical in a low-energy process at ambient temperature without heating.
Due to the presence of the triester oleate hydrophobic pendant groups, PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate allows for a high degree of intermolecular association, providing a good balance of mildness and foaming properties desired to meet the product's physical property profile. It possesses highly mild and potential anti-irritation properties.
It is compatible with such surfactants as disodium laureth sulfosuccinate, sodium myreth sulfate, sodium cocoamphodiacetate, sodium laureth-6 carboxylate, and decyl glucoside. Though effective and mild surfactants, these materials do not typically respond to the presence of traditional thickeners and salts, providing improved feel properties to skin and hair during use.
PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate effectively increased the viscosity of these difficult-to-thinner surfactants at relatively high levels of 3-4%. It is also suitable for liquid hand soaps, shower gels, facial washes, and baby shampoos. Its physical liquid form makes it the thickener of choice, where manufacturing limitations require the use of materials that are cold processable and/or require little or no heat.Related ingredients
