Hi Nucleus --
In order to find the chemical makeup of any chemical product, you may
phone or write to the company and request a Material Safety Data Sheet
(MSDS). The company is required to provide this to you. The MSDS will
provide you with not only the ingredients in the product, but also
other valuable information such as --
1 -- Contact Information about the company
2 -- Composition of the product
3 -- Fire and Explosion hazard information
4 -- Health Hazards
5 -- First Aid
6-- Reactivity information
7 -- Spill or Leak procedures
8-- Special Protection equipment
9-- Storage and Handling
10 -- Other Miscellaneous information.
So, to find the answer to your question I did a search for ::
MSDS acrylic nail extender
I found a company, Nail Systems International, which has posted the
MSDSs for all of their nail products, including nail extenders.
http://www.nsinails.com/msds/msds.html
Here's a summation (by product) of what chemicals make up some of
their nail extender acrylic products ---
Trade Name: Choice Universal Nail Liquid
Ethyl Methacrylate - Inhibited
Triethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate Esters
N, N Dimethyl p Toluidine
2- (2-Hydroxy-3, 5-di-tertamylphenyl) benzotriale
2-Hydroxy-4-n-octoxybenzophenone
Trade Name: Light Fantastic Liquid - Product Code: Nail Liquid
2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate
Thermosetting Acrylic Resin
Triethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate Esters
2, 2-Diethoxyacetophenone
2-Hydroxy-2-methyl-1phenyl-1-propanone
Trade Name: Light Fantastic Nail Powder - Pink - Product Code: Acrylic
Powder
Ethyl Methacrylate Homopolymer
Particulates NOC
As you can see, Methacrylate, in one form or another is the main
ingredient in these acrylic substances, whether liquid or powder. It
is the "acrylic."
When you are talking about "gel" you may think that this is somehow a
different chemical from the above liquids or powders, however gels
contain the same active ingredients --
"Gel is often referred to as not being acrylic, when in fact they are
based on both the methacrylate and the acrylate family, and are indeed
acrylic."
http://www.hooked-on-nails.com/NailTerms.html
For example --
Trade Name: Light Fantastic White Tip Gel
Aliphatic Urethane Acrylate Oligomer
Urethane Dimethacrylate
Thermosetting Acrylic Resin
Synthetic Amorphous Silicon Dioxide
Triethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate Ester
2-Hydroxy-2-methyl-1-phenyl-1-propanone
Triethylene Glycol Divinyl Ether
Titanium Dioxide
Notice that the products I mentioned are all using Ethyl Methacrylate.
This is because the old form of "dental acrylic" that used to be used
for nails, Methyl Methacrylate, turned out to be unsafe so the FDA
banned its use for nail products in 1974.
"In response to the FDA’s ban on methyl methacrylate nail products,
manufacturers reformulated their acrylic. Ethyl methacrylate became
the most popular substitute, although other chemicals, such as butyl
methacrylate, are also used These chemicals don’t seem to cause the
problems that methyl methacrylate did."
This should give you all the information you need regarding the
chemical makeup of acrylic nail gel. If you are looking for the exact
ingredients in a particular product, I encourage you to do an online
search for the company name and MSDS. If they don't post it online,
you can call their 800 number listed on the packaging and request that
it be mailed to you.
If anything I've explained is not clear, please feel free to ask for a
clarification.
--K~
Search terms --
Acrylic nail extender gel MSDS
FDA acrylic nail extender |
