Dow Corning To Exhibit, Present Skin and Hair Care Innovations at PCHi China

Dow Corning experts will be discussing their latest performance enhancing solutions for skin and hair care products at PCHi China, February 24-26, in the Guangzhou Jinhan Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, China.

At Booth B01, Dow Corning will be discussing:

* Dow Corning® SW-8005 C30 Resin Wax is an innovative silicone resin wax that will bring pleasing sensory benefits to your facial and body creams, and exciting performance benefits to your color cosmetics, including blushes, mascaras, and lipsticks.
* Dow Corning® FZ-3196, a high-quality volatile alkyl methyl siloxane fluid for formulators of skin care, sun care, color cosmetics, and hair care products. It offers moderate volatility, affordable cost-in-use, and excellent compatibility with a wide range of ingredients. Use it with vegetable oils or other naturals for enhanced sensory benefits, as a carrier for other ingredients, or as a dispersing medium for hydrophobic powders and pigments.
* Dow Corning amino products for hair protection.

At the New Technology session from 10:40 – 11:40 a.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 25, Isabelle Van Reeth, global skin care technical leader, associate scientist, will discuss the new Dow Corning silicone resin wax and Judy Zhu, application and technical specialist, will discuss a new silicone elastomer blend.

About Dow Corning
Dow Corning (www.dowcorning.com) provides performance-enhancing solutions to serve the diverse needs of more than 25,000 customers worldwide. A global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, Dow Corning offers more than 7,000 products and services through the Dow Corning® and XIAMETER® brands. Dow Corning is a joint venture equally owned by The Dow Chemical Company and Corning, Incorporated. More than half of Dow Corning’s annual sales are outside the United States.

About Dow Corning Beauty & Personal Care
Dow Corning’s performance enhancing materials for skin care and hair care products go beyond silicones to provide consumers with a unique sensory experience before, during and after application. Recent innovations include rheology modifiers, emulsifiers, highly efficient thickeners and sebum absorbers, cosmetic powders, sun care formulations and naturally derived solutions such as soy waxes.