Magnesium Stearate

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Magnesium Stearate

Magnesium Stearate, CAS# 557-04-0, called octadecanoic acid, magnesium salt, is a white substance, powder which becomes solid at room temperature. It also used to bind sugar in hard candies and is a common ingredient in baby formulas. Also used in salts, dry mixes and icing sugar.

  • E No:E470b

  • CAS No:557-04-0

  • Einecs No:209-150-3

  • HS Code:Mg(C18H35O2)2

  • Routine Packing:25 kg/bag

  • Place of origin:China

  • Port of dispapch:Shanghai,

  • Applications:Magnesium stearate is widely adopted in food, medicine, paint, plastic, rubber and textile fields and mainly function as emulsifier, releasing agent, lubricant, stabilizer, or accelerant etc. Also it can be used as stabilizer and lubricant in PVC or ABS resin etc.

About Magnesium Stearate

Magnesium stearate is a kind of tiny, light and white powder with greasy touch sense, insoluble in water, ethanol neither ethoxyethane, but soluble in hot water, hot ethanol, decomposes into stearic acid and magnesium salts when contacting with acid.
It consisting mainly of magnesium stearate and palmitate, is an example of a palm fatty acid product that is used to confer the propertiesof lubricity or fluidity on capsules and tablets of foods with health claims. In particular, magnesium stearate shows a highly favorable lubricity at a low dose when compared with conventional products such as sucrose fatty acid esters.