Overview of Magnesium stearate

What is Magnesium stearate ?

Magnesium is also referred to as magnesium octadecanoic, is an alloy of metals that is created from magnesium and sodium stearate. It is a white, fine powder , without sand. it has a distinctive smell and a slippery sensation when it comes in contact with skin. The product is insoluble water, ethanol or ether, and is used primarily as a lubricant, anti-adhesive agent and glidant. It is particularly suitable for the granulation of oils and extracts and the granules produced possess excellent fluidity and compressibility. As a flow aid for direct compression. It is also used as the aid for filtering, a clarifying agent, and as a foaming agent, and also as suspended agent, and thickening agent in liquid preparations.

Applicative areas Magnesium Stearate:

1. Magnesium Stearate is a component of medicines and health products

Magnesium stearate , a brand new additive that can be used as a film-forming material for solid preparations, a thickener in suspension liquid preparations that are suspended, the like. Magnesium stearate is not toxic and edible. It is also widely used as an additive in medical products. It is mostly used as a film coating for tablets due to its ability to allow the health products to be released at precise times as needed in addition to lubrication. Active ingredient.

2 . magnesium stearate can be found in cosmetics

Magnesium stearate is mostly used in cosmetics that are powdery, such as talcum powder, powder, powder, blush and eye shadows, among others. It improves the adhesion as well as the lubricity of many powders to the skin, with a focus on covering smoothing, stretching, and smoothing. Adhesion, absorption, etc.

3. Magnesium stearate is used in food preparation.

Magnesium stearate is used primarily for pressed foods (tablet sweets, milk tablets, nut chips as well as dietary fibre tablets, honey tablets, etc. ) This can increase liquidity, antistickiness, and lubricity of the product and also improve the quality of the tablet's surface. The gloss can make the pressed tablets smooth and uniform and does not require any process addition.

Additionally, magnesium stearate is often used to make coatings and rubbers, plastics, textiles, as well as other industrial areas.

It's a superb lubricating and dispersion stabilizing extra. It can also be used as the filter aid, a clarifying agent, a foaming agent, and an agent for thickening and suspending for liquid preparations.

Magnesium Stearate It is harmful for the human body

Magnesium Stearate is insoluble water and organic solutions, but soluble in hot ethanol and acids. When the body consumes magnesium stearate, the magnesium stearate has a chemical reaction that reacts to gastric acid , resulting in magnesium chloride and stearic acids. Magnesium Chloride is soluble water . It can flush it out through sweat and urine. Also, that stearic acid can be absorption and digested by the body. So, magnesium stearate will not cause harm to human bodies.

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