Check the listing for details. Steric Acid (High Purity). Color: none, Condition: New. Listed at 11.99 USD. Bulk Natural Products, takes pride in provide the best quality natural & organic products for your body, skin, and hair. Our Stearic Acid is packaged in easy to recycle, re-closable pouches. Stearic Acid helps to harden products, such as candles and soap bars, helping the latter to create a rich lather that feels velvety. This property makes it ideal for use in shaving foams. It also helps the skin remain hydrated by preventing or slowing moisture loss from the skin’s surface.APPLICATIONS FOR STEARIC ACID When added to soap formulations, Stearic Acid derivatives function as thickeners that help to harden the formulas into solids and that help to eliminate the thin and runny feeling of watered-down soaps. Their surfactant action helps reduce the surface tension of oils, which makes it easier for oil and water molecules to mix well. In this way, Stearic Acid works to ensure that emulsions do not separate into isolated layers of water and oil. This helps enhance a product’s effectiveness as well as its shelf life. This also means that final products with Stearic Acid do not need to be shaken as vigorously before they are used. On the skin and in the hair, Stearic Acid works to eliminate excess oil, sweat, and grime. This cleansing property makes it beneficial for addition to formulations for soap bars, face and body washes, shampoos, and even laundry detergents. Stearic Acid leaves the final product enhanced with conditioning qualities and its preservative property allows them to last longer. When added to shampoo formulations, Stearic Acid functions as a protective conditioner that helps to leave the hair feeling soft, light, and lustrous. This product is made in the U.S.A. 100% NATURAL & PURE