Is this your
problem?
Making building
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water-repellent materials?
Suspending pigments, producing "flatting" or increasing body in paints, lacquers, or varnishes?
renders water r e p e l l e n t such materials as cement, cement composition, wood, brick, stone, fiber and fabric.
CALCIUM STEARATE
CALCIUM STEARATE J prod uce flatting effect in lacquers. ZINC STEARATE CALCIUM STEARATE increase body in varnish; prevent ZINC STEARATE settling of pigments in paints and MAGNESIUM STEARATE enamels.
from dies?
CALCIUM STEARATE
is added to plastics for internal lubrication and dusted into molds or o n t o d i e s for m o l d i n g a n d extrusion.
Rendering crystals freeflowing and non-caking?
CALCIUM STEARATE
\ coats crystals against moisture.
Preventing plastics sticking to molds and
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Making powders?
stable
cosmetic
Q
Molding
medicinal
tablets?
New Text ( MAGNESIUM STEARATE
produce soft, smooth, fluffy, odorstable powders that have good covering power and add "bloom" to a face or body powder.
in small amounts is an excellent tablet lubricant.
Mallinckrodt specializes in producing specialized stearates, particularly designed to meet the stringent requirements of users. When makers of butyl rubber needed a special grade of zinc stearate to stabilize their emulsions; when the U.S. Navy needed a special magnesium stearate for anti-flash burn ointment; when a cosmetic manufacturer needed a special type of zinc stearate to withstand higher temperatures during processing, Mallinckrodt produced the answer. Our many years of experience in the uses of metallic soaps is at your service. We shall be glad to consult with you on your particular problem. Write us today.
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