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LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB can be applied to powder products in cosmetics and can improve adhesion and lubrication.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is a high-purity food-grade magnesium stearate (E470b) manufactured from vegetable-derived fatty acids and designed as a lubricant, anti-caking agent, and processing aid for the food and nutraceutical industries.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is supplied as a fine white, hydrophobic powder with excellent flow-improving and lubrication properties.
CAS Number: 557-04-0
Molecular Formula: C36H70MgO4
Molecular Weight: 591.24
EINECS Number: 209-150-3
Synonyms: Magnesium stearate, magnesium distearate, magnesium octadecanoate, magnesium dioctadecanoate, magnesium(II) stearate, dibasic magnesium stearate, octadecanoic acid magnesium salt, stearic acid magnesium salt, octadecanoic acid, magnesium salt (2:1), magnesium stearate G, magnesii stearas, MAGNESIUM STEARATE;MAGENSIUM STEARATE;STEARIC ACID MAGNESIUM SALT;OCTADECONIC ACID MAGNESIUM SALT;OCTADECANOIC ACID MAGNESIUM SALT;MAGNESIUM STEARATE, TECH.;MAGNESIUM STEARATE EXTRA PURE DAB, PH. E UR., B.P., PH. FRANC.;MAGNESIUM STEARATE EXTRA PURE PHARMACOPOEIA, Synpro 90, Synpro Magnesium Stearate 90, Petrac MG 20NF, NP 1500, SM 1000, SM-P, NS-M, DAYCLING, Magnesium stearate (JAN), Magnesium stearate (JAN/NF), Magnesium stearate (JP17/NF), Magnesii stearas (WHO-IP Latin), Magnesium stearate (WHO-DD), CAS 557-04-0, EC/EINECS 209-150-3, CHEBI:9254, UNII 70097M6I30, DTXSID2027208, DTXCID307208, RefChem:5973.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is a kind of fatty acid salt type anionic surfactant with its appearance being white powder with slight special smell and creamy feeling.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB can be soluble in hot aliphatic hydrocarbons, hot arene and hot grease but insoluble in alcohol and water with being decomposed into stearic acid and corresponding magnesium salts in case of acid.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB has an excellent adhesion property to the skin with excellent lubrication property.
This makes it an important food processing additive.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB consists of magnesium stearate, the magnesium salt of stearic acid, with the approximate chemical formula Mg(C₁₈H₃₅O₂)₂.
Its hydrophobic nature allows it to reduce friction between powder particles and manufacturing equipment while remaining practically insoluble in water.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it highly effective as a lubricant and release agent.
Compared with conventional food-grade magnesium stearate, LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is characterized by a higher specific surface area (8–12 m²/g) and a finer median particle size (D50: 5–9 μm), providing superior lubrication efficiency in very fine powder mixtures.
These characteristics make it particularly suitable for demanding processing conditions involving fine ingredients.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it a premium magnesium stearate grade.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is best described as a specialized vegetable-based food-grade magnesium stearate developed to improve powder flow, reduce sticking, and enhance manufacturing efficiency in food and nutraceutical production.
Its function is technological rather than nutritional.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB functions by forming a thin hydrophobic film on powder particles and processing equipment, reducing friction during blending, granulation, compression, and filling operations.
This minimizes sticking while improving manufacturing consistency and production speed.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it an efficient boundary lubricant.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MBs very fine particle size allows more uniform distribution throughout powder blends, ensuring consistent lubrication even when incorporated at relatively low concentrations.
This improves product uniformity without significantly affecting formulation composition.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it valuable in precision manufacturing.
The material demonstrates excellent compatibility with vitamins, minerals, botanical extracts, proteins, sweeteners, and numerous powdered food ingredients without significantly altering taste, odor, or appearance.
Its chemical inertness makes it suitable for complex formulations.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it important in nutraceutical formulation.
Its hydrophobic surface also reduces moisture absorption and helps prevent powder agglomeration during storage, thereby improving handling characteristics and extending shelf stability of dry products.
This contributes to more reliable manufacturing and packaging performance.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it useful in moisture-sensitive formulations.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is manufactured from vegetable-based raw materials and is available with certifications such as Halal, Kosher, and RSPO Mass Balance to support international food production standards.
These certifications facilitate its use in regulated global markets.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it suitable for worldwide food manufacturing.
Because of its high specific surface area and optimized precipitation process, it provides highly efficient lubrication while minimizing the quantity required during processing.
This helps maintain product quality and improves manufacturing economics.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it a high-performance food processing aid.
Melting point: 200 °C (lit.)
Density: 1.028 g/cm3
storage temp.: Inert atmosphere, room temperature
solubility: Alcohol: insoluble
form: Fine powder
color: White
pH: 7 (H2O, slurry)
Odor: White soft oily powder, tasteless, odorless
Water Solubility: Insoluble
Merck: 14,5690
BRN: 3919702
Exposure limits: ACGIH: TWA 10 mg/m3; TWA 3 mg/m3
Stability: Stable. Incompatible with strong oxidizing agents.
Major Application: Pharmaceutical (small molecule)
Cosmetics Ingredients Functions: MOISTURISING; ANTICAKING; BULKING; COLORANT
Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR): Magnesium stearate (557-04-0)
InChI: 1S/2C18H36O2.Mg/c21-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18(19)20;/h22-17H2,1H3,(H,19,20);/q;;+2/p-2
InChIKey: DRJIJXNWSSRTTE-UHFFFAOYSA-M
SMILES: CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)O[Mg]OC(=O)CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
LogP: 8.216 (est)
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB can be used as PVC heating stabilizers with the stability performance being similar to calcium stearate and can be combined with zinc or calcium soaps for being applied to food packaging material but without very wide application.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB can be used as a mold releasing agent of plastic products, face powder of cosmetics, the raw material of skin ointment, the powder molding tablet of pharmaceutical tablets and translucent flatting agent of paint.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is a fatty acid, salt-type anionic surfactant with its appearance being white powder with a creamy feeling.
It is a compound of magnesium with a mixture of solid organic acids obtained from edible sources and consists chiefly of variable proportions of magnesium stearate and magnesium palmitate.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB appears as bright white soft powder with the industrial products containing a small amount of oleic acid and 7% magnesium oxide and is odorless and tasteless.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is slightly soluble in water and soluble in hot ethanol.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB exhibits excellent lubricating efficiency because its plate-like magnesium stearate particles form a thin, continuous film between powder particles and processing equipment, significantly reducing friction during manufacturing operations.
This lubrication improves processing speed while minimizing mechanical wear on equipment.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it highly effective in high-speed production.
The material possesses strong hydrophobic characteristics that help reduce moisture absorption by powder formulations, improving storage stability and minimizing caking during transportation and long-term storage.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB contributes to better handling and extended product shelf life.
This makes it valuable in moisture-sensitive formulations.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB demonstrates good thermal stability under normal food-processing conditions, maintaining its lubricating properties throughout blending, granulation, compression, and encapsulation processes without significant chemical degradation.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB ensures consistent manufacturing performance across different processing methods.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it suitable for industrial-scale production.
Because of its high purity and controlled manufacturing process, it contains very low levels of impurities and exhibits consistent particle size distribution, allowing reproducible processing performance from batch to batch.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB consistency is important for quality-controlled food and nutraceutical production.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it a reliable specialty additive.
Its low chemical reactivity allows it to remain compatible with a wide variety of food ingredients, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, plant extracts, and pharmaceutical excipients without participating in unwanted chemical reactions.
This preserves both product stability and ingredient functionality.
This makes it important in complex formulations.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB functions primarily as a processing aid rather than an active ingredient, meaning it improves manufacturing efficiency without significantly contributing to the nutritional, sensory, or functional properties of the final product.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MBs concentration is generally kept low to avoid affecting tablet hardness or dissolution characteristics.
This makes it an efficient technological additive.
Uses:
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB has been widely used for many decades in the food industry as an emulsifier, binder and thickener, as well as an anticaking, lubricant, release, and antifoaming agent.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is present in many food supplements, confectionery, chewing gum, herbs and spices, and baking ingredients.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is also commonly used as an inactive ingredient in the production of pharmaceutical tablets, capsules and powders.
The main reason for its good lubricating properties is its hydrophobic nature and an ability to reduce friction between tablets and die wall during the ejection process.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB can be regarded as being non-toxic, the United States, Germany and Japan allow it to be applied to products being contact with food.
However, it doesn’t have wide application to be applied as PVC heat stabilizers.
In China and some other countries Pharmacopoeia, there are always records of this specie.
The pharmacopeia has also made provisions on the magnesium content, moisture, heavy metals, iron, sulfate and chloride content.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is the magnesium salt of stearic acid which functions as a lubricant, binder, emulsifier, and anticaking agent.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is a white powder that is insoluble in water.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is used as a lubricant or die release in tableting pressed candies and is also used in sugar- less gum and mints.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is often used as a anti-adherent in the manufacture of medical tablets, capsules and powders.
In this regard, the substance is also useful, because it has lubricating properties, preventing ingredients from sticking to manufacturing equipment during the compression of chemical powders into solid tablets; magnesium stearate is the most commonly used lubricant for tablets.
Studies have shown that magnesium stearate may affect the release time of the active ingredients in tablets, etc., but not that it reduces the overall bioavailability of those ingredients. As a food additive or pharmaceutical excipient, its E number is E470b.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is widely used as a tablet lubricant in confectionery and nutraceutical manufacturing, reducing friction during compression and allowing smooth ejection from tablet dies.
This improves production efficiency and tablet quality.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it essential in tablet manufacturing.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is used as an anti-caking and flow-improving agent in powdered food products such as spices, herbs, beverage powders, protein supplements, and vitamin blends.
It ensures uniform powder flow during mixing, filling, and packaging operations.
This makes it important in powder processing.
In confectionery production, it serves as a release agent that prevents sticking of candies, dragees, and molded products to punches, molds, and manufacturing equipment.
This helps maintain consistent product appearance and production speed.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it valuable in confectionery processing.
In capsule manufacturing, it improves powder flowability and filling accuracy, allowing consistent capsule weight during high-speed industrial production.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB enhances manufacturing precision and product quality.
This makes it important in capsule production.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is also incorporated into baking powders, functional foods, fortified foods, and dietary supplements where lubrication, flow improvement, and moisture resistance are required during processing.
Its multifunctional properties support efficient large-scale manufacturing.
This makes it useful in food technology.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is widely used as a lubricant in tablet manufacturing, where it reduces friction between powder blends and compression equipment, allowing smooth tablet ejection and minimizing tool wear.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB improves manufacturing efficiency and product consistency.
This makes it essential in tablet production.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is used as an anti-caking and flow agent in powdered food products such as beverage mixes, spices, seasoning blends, protein powders, and nutritional supplements.
It helps powders remain free-flowing during storage and packaging.
This makes it important in dry food processing.
In capsule manufacturing, it serves as a flow enhancer that improves powder movement into capsule-filling machines, ensuring accurate and uniform capsule weight during high-speed production.
This reduces filling errors and improves production efficiency.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it valuable in encapsulation processes.
In confectionery manufacturing, it functions as a release agent that prevents candies, chewing gum, and compressed confectionery products from sticking to molds, punches, and processing equipment.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB improves product appearance and production speed.
This makes it useful in confectionery processing.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is incorporated into vitamin, mineral, and dietary supplement formulations to improve powder blending, lubrication, and processing consistency during industrial manufacturing.
Its low usage level minimizes its effect on the final product composition.
This makes it important in nutraceutical production.
In food ingredient premixes, it is used to improve the handling, transport, and packaging of powdered ingredients by reducing friction, preventing agglomeration, and enhancing bulk powder flowability.
This ensures more reliable manufacturing and packaging operations.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it important in food processing technology.
Safety Profile:
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is widely used as a pharmaceutical excipient and is generally regarded as being nontoxic following oral administration. However, oral consumption of large quantities may produce a laxative effect or mucosal irritation.
No toxicity information is available relating to normal routes of occupational exposure. Limits for heavy metals in magnesium stearate have been evaluated in terms of magnesium stearate worstcase daily intake and heavy metal composition.
Toxicity assessments of magnesium stearate in rats have indicated that it is not irritating to the skin, and is nontoxic when administered orally or inhaled.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB is generally regarded as a low-hazard food-grade material with very low acute toxicity when handled under normal industrial and food-processing conditions.
Its primary purpose is to assist manufacturing rather than provide biological activity.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes it relatively safe during routine use.
Handling large amounts of the fine powder may generate airborne dust capable of causing mild irritation to the eyes, skin, or respiratory tract during prolonged occupational exposure.
Appropriate ventilation and dust control are recommended during manufacturing.
This makes workplace hygiene important.
The material is chemically stable under recommended storage conditions but should be protected from excessive humidity and contamination to preserve its free-flowing properties and product quality.
Proper storage maintains consistent processing performance.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes storage management important.
Although magnesium stearate has low environmental toxicity and is widely accepted for food applications, unnecessary release of large quantities into the environment should still be avoided as part of good manufacturing practice.
Responsible disposal and housekeeping are recommended.
LIGAFOOD MF-3-K-MB makes environmental management important.
