Bath and Shower

Young man touching his face after cleansing. Our multifunctional products enable formulators to create mild shampoos, two-in-one shampoo conditioners, mousse, bath and shower gels, body wash, facial wash, liquid hand soap, baby cleansers and shaving creams.

Cutting-edge cleansers, conditioners and more

Quality ingredients are essential for formulating effective bath and shower products.

Our portfolio of surfactants, skin conditioners and rheology modifiers -- biopolymers, synthetic polymers, anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants and fatty amines, chelates and cellulose gums -- deliver reliable cleansing and aesthetic enhancement performance.

Our multifunctional products enable formulators to create mild shampoos, two-in-one shampoo conditioners, mousse, bath and shower gels, body wash, facial wash, liquid hand soap, baby cleansers and shaving creams.

As a leading supplier of specialties for personal care industry, we also offer high-quality sodium and potassium hydroxide pellets. Highly alkaline, they are suitable for cosmetics production/synthesis, saponification, cleansing and pH-adjustments.

Mild surfactants for efficient cleansing and foam build-up

Our sulfate-free anionic surfactants are easy to use and provide better cleansing and foam build-up than competitive benchmarks. They also deliver similar cleansing performance to sulfated surfactants. Based on vegetable fatty acid and ready biodegradation, they offer superior clarity over other sulfate-free cleansers due to highly efficient synthesis and low residuals. Both grades are very effective, even in hard water.

Elfan® AT84 Mild sulfate-free surfactant that provides high foam build up while maintaining outstanding clarity. Enables dense, creamy and stable foams in soft and hard water.
Elfan® AT84 G Non-dusty granules for easy handling in the manufacturing process. Suitable for soap bars, giving excellent foam creaminess.

Conditioning polymers

Our Celquat® SC Polymer series offer surfactant compatible cationic conditioners useful in a broad range of personal care products. The water-soluble modified cellulosics are highly cationic over the entire useful pH range, substantive to hair and skin, and provide aesthetic benefits like improved wet comb, detangling, body, and feel.

Celquat® SC-230M High-viscosity cationic conditioning polymer suitable for a variety of applications. It shows an excellent coacervation profile and deposition performance. Formulators can achieve effective thickening performance and exceptional clarity.
Celquat® SC-240C Surfactant compatible, low-viscosity cationic polymer that provides medium conditioning with optimal usage in shampoo and pourable body formulations.

Rheology modifiers

Rheology modifiers are essential ingredients to define product form and function. They affect the flow and feel of a product, determine application properties, and enable the creation of products with consumer preferred textures and visual appeal. Our surfactant thickeners help formulators achieve desired and unique textures when developing the finest personal care products.

Amaze™ XT Multifunctional ingredient that offers superior stabilization, long–term suspension, and rheology modification. Amaze XT not only builds viscosity effectively, it also provides great sensory benefits such as cushion and slip.
Elfacos® GT282S This versatile nonionic polyalkylene derived associative thickener provides effective rheology modification over a broad pH range (2-12). This product is compatible with a wide range of surfactants and is an excellent choice for difficult to thicken applications like sulfate-free surfactants.
Structure® XL An easy to use nonionic naturally derived, biodegradable, multifunctional rheology modifier that offers thickening, emulsion stabilization, and sensory enhancement. This product can provide improvements to foam in cleansing systems as well as lighter sensory in conditioners.

Chelating Agents applications for longer shelf life

Our full range of biobased and readily biodegradable chelating agents deliver gentle and powerful solutions for eco-friendly cosmetics products. Chelating agents are used to complex metal ions and, as a result, the formulation will remain storage stable, not developing any color and odorless. Our chelating agents are ideal for boosting performance of preservatives in bath and shower formulations. They help formulators stabilize and avoid discoloration, retard turbidity and oxidation, improving product shelf life.

Dissolvine® GL-47-S and Dissolvine ®GL Plus Readily biodegradable and efficient biobased, these greener chelates comply with cosmetic regulations such as ISO 16128 and Ecolabel.
Dissolvine® M-40 and Dissolvine® M-S Also readily biodegradable, both products are efficient biobased chelates.

Anhydrous Formulations for bath powders

NatraSorb™ Bath is a specialty starch that offers unique functionality that is particularly suited for bath powders. Due to its unique processing, it can absorb and carry large quantities of oils and anhydrous liquids, such as bath oils.

NatraSorb™ Bath Natural tapioca starch modified to carry high loads of oils which release upon contact with water. The starch leaves no residues in the bathtub.

Celullose gums - Enhancing bath and shower formulations

Through our Akucell and Cekol product lines, we provide unique solutions for the personal care industry. They are used as essential ingredients in formulations of shampoos, gels and hair conditioners.

Akucell® and Cekol® Akucell are Cekol are one of the most comprehensive cellulose gum product lines in the world and, providing properties such as thickening, absorption, gelling, rheology, film formation and moisture control.

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