Parrafin Wax
- Benchmark: Benchmark 3
- Assessed: 2025-11-14
- Expires: 2026-07-11
Used primarily in Cosmetics & Personal Care, Food Contact & Additives, and Industrial / Manufacturing applications, Parrafin Wax is specifically used in cosmetics, food industry, food packaging, lubricant, personal care products, viscosity controlling agent, and water-proofing agent.
Paraffin waxes and hydrocarbon waxes is a solid mixture of saturated open-chain hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum characterized by relatively large crystals; it contains solid hydrocarbons of the methane series and a small percentage of other organic entities. It is a solid crystalline mixture of straight-chain
(normal) hydrocarbons ranging from C20 to C30 and possibly higher (CH3(CH2)nCH3)
where n ≥ 18 (Speight, 2011). Paraffin waxes and hydrocarbon waxes are highly refined
substances that originate from a stream of lubricating base oils that act as feedstocks for
most of the dewaxing operations that produce finished paraffin and microcrystalline
waxes. Paraffin wax is a substance of unknown or variable composition (UVCB); as such,
there is no discrete chemical structure.
Chemical Synonyms Petroleum distillates, hydrotreated heavy paraffinic, residual oils (petroleum) solvent, dewaxed, hydrocarbon wax
Key Functions: Cosmetics & Personal Care, Food Contact & Additives, Industrial / Manufacturing