Magnesium stearate is a kind of tiny, light and white powder with greasy touch sense, insoluble in water, ethanol neither ethoxyethane, but soluble in hot water, hot ethanol, decomposes into stearic acid and magnesium salts when contacting with acid.
It consisting mainly of magnesium stearate and palmitate, is an example of a palm fatty acid product that is used to confer the propertiesof lubricity or fluidity on capsules and tablets of foods with health claims. In particular, magnesium stearate shows a highly favorable lubricity at a low dose when compared with conventional products such as sucrose fatty acid esters.
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