Hydroxyethyl urea

Hydroxyethyl urea

Hydroxyethylurea is a new type of moisturizing agent with outstanding advantages. Compared with traditional moisturizers, hydroxyethylurea has a more significant moisturizing effect, smooth coating feeling, in the skin care products is not sticky, not greasy, moist comfortable feeling, and its own non-ionic brings a very wide range of applicability. And compared with expensive moisturizers, hydroxyethylurea can be formulated at a lower cost to achieve the same results; Even in base formulations based on glycerol and propylene glycol, hydroxyethylurea can be used for better moisturizing, smoother coating, and the same or even lower formulation cost by reducing the amount of other components (such as silicone oil) that may affect the appearance of the cream. Even in extreme conditions, at 6% relative humidity, hydroxyethylurea can also make the skin soft by forming a liquid crystal phase with the stratum corneum, which prevents the stratum corneum from converting to solid crystals.