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Invigorate Your Skin Care Formulations

Our experts in skin care combine the latest industry trends with our advanced technology to create ingredients that help formulators consistently meet and exceed consumer demands. Use our versatile solutions to craft high-performing products that protect, moisturize and enhance the beauty of skin.

Our outstanding portfolio of technologies -- naturally derived polymers, cellulose gums, synthetic polymer and actives -- continue enabling leading manufactures worldwide to formulate new body lotions, hand creams, moisturizing sheet mask, eye creams and serums, facial cleanser, lip masks and multifunctional skin care products to name a few.

Contact us to learn more about our ingredients and solutions for your most challenging skin care formulations.

 


Featured sensory enhancers for eco-conscious consumers

We aim to address the most demanding challenges facing today's formulators. Our range of naturally derived sensory enhancers enables clean-labeled cosmetics with an excellent environmental and regulatory profile.

  • Dry-Flo® PC Enhances aesthetics by reducing the greasiness and tackiness as well as controlling the gloss caused by oil-phase components in lotions, creams and ointments. This naturally derived oil absorber is an essential ingredient to enhance the aesthetics of a variety of personal care formulations.
  • Dry-Flo® TS (Pure) Dry-Flo® TS starch is an aluminum-free, non-GMO modified tapioca starch ideal for reducing greasiness, gloss, and tack in the oiliest formulations. Its low-protein content is ideal for formulations for sensitive skin and reduced allergy concerns.
  • Tapioca Pure Naturally derived, Tapioca Pure is a high purity, GMO free, economic aesthetic enhancer alternative for formulators. It can reduce gloss and perceived oiliness in aqueous and anhydrous formulations.
  • Amaze® Nordic Barley COSMOS approved barley starch, providing excellent skin aesthetics without the need of any chemical modification or irradiation.
  • Purity® 21C Pure An aesthetic enhancer, unmodified corn starch that can serve as an economical and effective oil absorber. It is ideal for formulations that require high whiteness and free flowing properties.
  • Dry-Flo® Elite BN Dry-Flo® Elite BN is surface treated with boron nitride. Its platelet particle shape provides a high degree of slip and lubricity to cosmetic formulations. It exhibits a very lubricious feel, better coverage, and improved adhesion.
  • Dry-Flo® Elite LL Dry-Flo® Elite LL is surface-treated with lauroyl lysine, which provide a soft and smooth feel to formulations. The naturally derived amino acid derivative is hydrophobic with good adhesion properties. It exhibits increased skin adhesion, softness and matte coverage.
  • NatraSorb® HFB With a high capacity for loading oils, it and can be used for skin oil control or as a delivery vehicle for fragrance oils. The product can also be used as an additive in formulations to help mitigate syneresis, and to assist in high loading of oil into final products.
  • NatraSorb® Bath Specialty starch that enables stunning anhydrous skin care formulations. Due to its unique processing, it’s able to absorb and carry large quantities of oils and anhydrous liquids, releasing them with shear or upon contact with water.

Featured innovative emulsifiers and emulsion stabilizers 

As nonionic copolymers, our high-performing brands Elfacos and Ethomeen are hydrolytically stable and effective over wide pH ranges. Both product lines are tolerant to high concentrations of electrolytes.

  • Elfacos® E200 A low HLB (~6.2) nonionic polymeric emulsifier that is suitable as a primary emulsifier in W/O systems and can act as a co-emulsifier in O/W formulations. It provides smooth, soft, and easily spreadable textures in lotions and creams.
  • Elfacos® ST9 Low HLB (~4.4) nonionic polymeric emulsion stabilizer that is suitable for W/O systems. This product is also an outstanding solubilizer for lipophilic substances. Additionally, its paste form is ideal for the replacement of lanolin.
  • Elfacos® ST 37 A low HLB (~2.4) nonionic polymeric emulsion stabilizer that is suitable for W/O systems. It provides finished formulations with superior skin penetration. Its liquid form makes it an ideal binder for powder products.
  • Ethomeen® SV/12 A primary emulsifier and wetting agent used in a variety of cosmetic formulations. It provides desired viscosity and rheology in the final product and is the ideal choice for cleansing oil gels.

Featured actives developed for luxurious skin care feel

Our water-soluble moisturizers and humectant agents deliver effective hydration and elegant aesthetics for a remarkable sensorial experience that will help set your skin care products apart from the rest.

  • Hydrovance® Provides excellent moisturization, increases skin elasticity, and enhances tactile sensory properties of formulations. This cost-efficient solution has broad compatibility, offering cosmetic chemists the freedom to formulate over a wide pH range and with a large variety of raw materials.
  • ElfaMoist® AC For high-performing formulations with an outstanding sensory profile, while providing immediate and long-lasting moisturization (30 hours) after a single application.

Featured rheology modifiers for skin care formulations

Achieve premium sensory properties and visual appeal with naturally derived rheology modifiers that support the final form and function of your products.

  • Amaze® XT A multifunctional, 100% naturally derived polymer with thickening and suspending capabilities suitable for a variety of natural as well as conventional applications.
  • Structure® XL Nonionic, naturally derived, biodegradable rheology modifiers that performs as thickeners, emulsion stabilizers and foam enhancers over a broad pH range.
  • Structure® ZEA Nonionic, naturally derived, biodegradable rheology modifiers that performs as thickeners, emulsion stabilizers and foam enhancers over a broad pH range. It’s a lower viscosity version of Structure XL that is more tolerant to extreme processing conditions such as high shear and acidic conditions.
  • Structure® Solanace™ A unique amphoteric biodegradable emulsion stabilizer and rheology modifier derived from potato starch (non-GM) that is targeted for use in low pH skin care emulsions providing a long-lasting, soft velvety after feel.

Cellulose gums - Unique solutions for personal and health care  

Through our Akucell anionic water-soluble polymers, we provide unique solutions for the personal care, cosmetics and health care industry.

  • Akucell® and Cekol® Akucell and Cekol are one of the most comprehensive cellulose gum product lines in the world, providing properties such as thickening, absorption, rheology, film-forming and moisture control. In skin care, it’s ideal for moisturizing serums and body lotions.
Find all our solutions for skin care formulations.

 

Image or barley plant. Amaze™ Nordic Barley is a 100% natural, unmodified, COSMOS approved starch ideal for skin, sun and hair care formulations as well as color cosmetics. The pure barley is regionally sourced from Scandinavia and produced in an eco-conscious process as a side-stream of the beverage industry. It has excellent microbial purity and so is produced without the requirement for irradiation or other treatments.

Product Spotlight: Amaze® Nordic Barley

A 100% natural, unmodified, COSMOS approved starch ideal for skin, sun and hair care formulations as well as color cosmetics. It has excellent microbial purity and so is produced without the requirement for irradiation or other treatments.

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