BTMS-50, Behentrimonium Methosulfate

BTMS 50, Behentrimonium Methosulfate 50, is a natural vegetable based, high active (50%) quaternary conditioning agent and cationic emulsifier . It offers the formulator efficient cationic conditioning with emulsifying properties for hair and skin formulations. It is both a mild primary emulsifier and an excellent conditioning agent, which provides elegant cationic emulsions for both skin and hair care products. These creams tend to resist wash off, leaving a soft, powdery feel on the skin and imparting excellent detangling properties to hair conditioners. In a hair conditioner, it offers improved wet comb and leaves hair with noticeable body and spring. Due to its extreme mildness, it is suitable for leave-in conditioners. BTMS-50 can be used as a co-emulsifier with Polawax, adding its conditioning properties to emulsions. BTMS-50 provides a wonderfully sophisticated, silky, powdery skin-feel to creams and lotions due to the conditioning agent within it. Easy to work with. BTMS-50 can also be used in hair conditioners to make an easy, cost effective conditioner base in either liquid or solid bar format.
BTMS 50 is recommended for use in lotions, scrubs, creams hair conditioners, detanglers, deep conditioning relaxers, and many other popular personal care products.
BTMS 50 is both a mild primary emulsifier and an effective conditioning agent, which provides elegant cationic emulsions for both skin and hair care products. The BTMS 50 has a high percentage of cationic conditioning agents, the highest level, making it effective for use in a wide variety of skin and hair care products. In hair care, it is very popular in leave-on conditioners, as well as more traditional rinse off hair care products.

Vegetable based. Behentrimonium Methosulfate is a quaternary ammonium salt derived from the natural plant oil Colza, commonly known as Rapeseed Oil.

Benefits

Efficient conditioning compound
Vegetable based
Good Emulsifying properties
Substantive to hair and skin
Viscosity increaser / emulsion stabilizer
Easy handling
Used to emulsify silicone in many hair and skin care products
Typical usage levels

INCI Behentrimonium Methosulfate (and) Cetyl Alcohol – (this is the 50% Active – not 25%, which we also offer)

Popularly known as BTMS-50, 50% Active

Ingredients: Behentrimonium methosulfate (and) cetyl alcohol (and) butylene glycol.
Classification: Quaternary ammonium compound, surfactant
INCI Name: Behentrimonium methosulfate & Cetyl alcohol & Butylene glycol
Usage rate: 0.5- 10 % BTMS Pellets (some formulas may call for higher usage on a percentage level, but that is not typical)
Uses: Leave on/rinse off hair conditioners, skin creams and lotions, detanglers, hair relaxers, hair dyes, straighteners, silicone emulsions, shaving products, hair mist.

Country of Origin: South Korea