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To produce a durable water-based nail polish base, aqueous acrylic polymers developed in the past were used to develop five water-based nail polish bases, with different characteristics, called WorléeAqua Nail. In a panel test, WorléeAqua Nail 100 was compared on women's fingernails with a standard solvent-based polish and a standard water-based nail polish. After allowing the nails to dry for one hour, a simulation of five minutes of dish washing was carried out, followed by ten rounds of rummaging in a pile of pebbles. Evaluation of the results demonstrated that the water-based nail polish base performed very well in the six categories of application, durability, drying time, smell gloss and opacity. The commercially-available water-based nail polish product received similar ratings for smell. However, it failed to compare favourably in any other category. The solvent-based polish performed less well in the categories of smell and opacity. Furthermore, determination of the pendulum hardness of nail polish made with the new aqueous acrylic polymer led to ratings similar to those of solvent-containing nail polishes. Gloss measurments like wise yielded very favourable results for the new nail polish bases. These evaluations demonstrate that use of the new nail polish bases requires no compromise in terms of durability or other characteristics, and even presents advantages in terms of smell and opacity. Accordingly, the WorléeAqua Nail series proves to be a very good alternative to solvent-based nail polish systems. |
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Nail polish : a water-based alternative in SOFW JOURNAL, Vol. 142, N° 12 (12/2016)
