Carbomer 940 is a kind of thickening agent and gel which is very common in daily chemical industry, including the disposable disinfection gel for disinfection, which is also made of carbomer. Moreover, the temperature has dropped rapidly recently, the epidemic has a tendency to rebound, and the demand for carbomer has also increased. What is the price now
Carbomer 940 is one of the more commonly used carbomer series, because it has a good skin feel, thickening, viscosity and transparency are very suitable for skin care products such as creams and hand sanitizers. Although there are many manufacturers producing carbomers, carbomers used in different products are different in quality and grade due to their diverse uses, so there are obvious differences in prices.
Take Desun Carbomer 940 as a raw material for daily chemicals, if it is a ton, the price is about 130 per kilogram. For the same carbomer, the raw material prices of products with the same concentration and different gel transparency are also different. Products with excellent thickening performance and high transparency include Lubrizol’s Carbomer, but because it is an imported product, the price is relatively high, and it needs to be purchased from an agent without retail, and the supply is not flexible enough.
Although there are many domestic carbomers, although the price is lower, there is still a certain gap in the quality of many products compared with imported ones. Especially for mid-to-high-end cosmetics, the raw material cost is not high, and the cost of carbomer is even less. Therefore, carbomer with better quality and performance is preferred as the raw material for gel or cream. This is why before the epidemic, most manufacturers used imported carbomer raw materials, and imported carbomer only switched to domestic raw materials when the epidemic was restricted.
There are also some carbomers whose prices are different because of their different grades. For example, the carbomer leak-proof glue used for the modification of decoration materials in the material industry has a much lower price; in the pharmaceutical field, it is used as a pharmaceutical excipient. Boehm has a higher grade and a higher price than those used in cosmetics.
It can be seen that the same is Carbomer 940, with different grades and different qualities, and the price difference is quite large. Desheng's Carbomer 940 is used in cosmetics and pharmaceutical accessories.