Cosmetics and Personal Care

Throughout the ages cosmetic products have played an important role in enhancing natural beauty. While this is still the case today, there is a growing trend toward functional cosmetic products that protect and repair damage caused by our increasingly harsh environment. We specialise in functional raw materials that provide formulators with the foundations of effective cosmetic and personal care products.

Triglycerides Natural oils, fats and waxes provide emolliency, moisturising, lubricity and conditioning to your formulations. Let us help you develop effective and functional formulations.

 

Lanolin and Lanolin Derivatives	Tea Tree Oil
Shea Butter	Castor Oil
Cocoa Butter	Olive Oil
Meadowfoam Seed Oil and Derivatives	Avocado Oil

 

Emulsifiers Emulsifiers are the secret to stable quality products. Allow us to guide you on the correct emulsifier system in your formulation. Examples include:

Fatty Esters	Polyethylene Sorbitan Esters
Glyceryl Esters	Polyethylene Glycol Esters
Sorbitan Esters

 

Preservatives Protect your formulations from the threat of bacteria, yeasts and moulds and maintain the integrity of your product with our extensive range of cosmetic preservatives. Examples include:

DMDM Hydantoin	Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate
Parabens	Phenoxyethanol
Diazolindinyl Urea	Preservative Blends
Chlorphenesin	Triclosan

 

Surfactants We specialise in mild surfactants suitable for skin cleansers, baby shampoos or for any application where you want to impart mildness in the end product. Examples include: Amphoterics - Mild surfactants Betaines and Sultaines - Thickening and foam boosting Sulfosuccinates - Mild surfactants Alkanolamides - Thickening, foam boosting and stabilising Amidoamines - Mild conditioning Amine Oxides - Conditioning, viscosity and foam building Surfactant Blends

 

Proteins Add that "something special" by including a cosmetic grade protein to your hair care or skin care formulation. We have proteins that will provide both protein and lipid conditioning. Additionally, some are quaternised to provide substantivity. Protein sources include:

Collagen	Soy
Silk	Milk
Keratin	Oat
Wheat

 

Conditioners Nourish and protect the skin and hair by including a conditioning agent in your product. Other benefits include improved shine and feel and better wet and dry combing in hair care products: Examples include:

Amidoamine Conditioners	Stearalkonium Chloride
Meadowfoam Seed Oil derivatives	Cetrimonium Chloride
Polyquaternium-7	Silicones
Guar Hydroxypropyl Trimonium Chloride

 

Suncare We offer a complete range of organic and inorganic sunscreen actives, SPF boosters and self-tanning actives. We have an extensive suncare formulary that we would be happy to share with you.

Coated Titanium Dioxide	Inorganics
Coated Zinc Oxide	Dihydroxyacetone
Predispersed oxides

Botanical Extracts
For that "something natural" in your product we offer a vast array of
botanical extracts in a variety of diluents including silicone to enable the inclusion of botanicals in anhydrous systems.

Examples include:

Camellia sinensis	Ginkgo biloba
Capsicum frutescens	Centella asiatica
Chlorella	Chamomile

 

Specialty Delivery Systems
We can offer specialty technologies that enable the unique delivery of active ingredients. In this way it is possible to control the release of active ingredients to the skin or hair. Release can be dependent on factors such as heat, pH and ionic charge. Other systems enable the use of incompatible ingredients in a formulation by preventing contact until they are applied to the skin.

Examples of these technologies include:

Liposomes -	deliver active ingredients more effectively to the skin.
Surfactant Free Dispersions -	enable formulating of water and oil soluble ingredients without emulsifiers. In this way the irritation potential of certain active ingredients can be minimised.

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