Abstract: The disclosure provides a personal care composition and method for forming the composition wherein the SCC polymer has at least one functionality selected from the group consisting of silicone, hydroxyl and carboxy. Such functionalized SCC polymers can be employed in a wide range of personal care compositions including skin care, body wash, and shampoo and hair treatments, among other personal care products.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a personal care composition and method for forming the composition wherein the SCC polymer has at least one functionality selected from the group consisting of silicone, hydroxyl and carboxy. Such functionalized SCC polymers can be employed in a wide range of personal care compositions including skin care, body wash, and shampoo and hair treatments, among other personal care products.

Abstract: A composition for use as a de-icing fluid comprising a glycol based aqueous solution thickened with about 0.01 to about 5.0% by weight of a cross-linked hydrophobically modified copolymer of an acrylic acid which has a Brookfield mucilage viscosity of at least 25,000 cP at 0.5% by weight polymer dosage, a holdover time of at least 60 minutes, a shear thinning index of at least 20, and a shear loss of less than 15% and acceptable aerodynamic performance.

Abstract: A polymeric thickener, emulsifier or suspension aid having improved wettability which is an interpolymer of at least one olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid containing at least one activated carbon-to-carbon olefinic double bond and at least one carboxyl group, in an amount of more than 15% by weight based upon the weight of the interpolymer, and at least one steric stabilizer surfactant having at least one hydrophilic moiety and at least one hydrophobic moiety and a linear block or a random comb configuration, or mixtures thereof, where the interpolymer has admixed therewith a wetting additive such as a low surface tension surfactant, a glycol, a polyhydric alcohol or mixtures thereof, and a process for dispersing the interpolymer by adding a low surface tension surfactant to the water into which the interpolymer is being dispersed.

Abstract: A polymeric thickener, emulsifier or suspension aid having improved wettability which is an interpolymer of at least one olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid containing at least one activated carbon-to-carbon olefinic double bond and at least one carboxyl group, in an amount of more than 15% by weight based upon the weight of the interpolymer, and at least one steric stabilizer surfactant having at least one hydrophilic moiety and at least one hydrophobic moiety and a linear block or a random comb configuration, or mixtures thereof, where the interpolymer has admixed therewith a wetting additive such as a low surface tension surfactant, a glycol, a polyhydric alcohol or mixtures thereof, and a process for dispersing the interpolymer by adding a low surface tension surfactant to the water into which the interpolymer is being dispersed.