Cognis Goes Green in a Big Way

2008-04-10 | 11:34

A wealth of new ingredients on display at In-Cosmetics

Cognis Care Chemicals and its active ingredients business Laboratoires Sérobiologiques (LS) will be exhibiting a variety of natural-based personal care solutions in line with their Green Chemical Solutions concept. These enable manufacturers to develop a wide range of products that address the constantly growing new green market.

“Personal care products have an impact on people’s emotional state and well-being,” explained Bettina Jackwerth, global marketing director, skin care. “With our overall strategy to focus on the wellness market and to develop solutions that help improve people’s quality of life, we are able to identify future trends at a very early stage. Thereby, we give our customers the competitive edge they need to succeed.”

Some of these new ideas from Cognis and LS include:

• A surfactant for oral care applications which combines environmental sustainability with mildness and improved taste, making it an excellent choice for toothpaste formulations.

• A very mild pearlizing wax dispersion for natural hair and appealing body cleansing formulations that serve the new “green” trend toward natural beauty.

• A preservative-free active, based on gymnemic acid, that prolongs and enhances depilation benefits. Clinical tests have shown significant effect after one month of treatment.

Other high-performance ingredients include:

• A liquid acrylic emulsion polymer with special rheological behavior designed to suspend, thicken and enhance the appearance of surfactant-based cosmetic cleansing preparations.

• A texture agent delivering a melting texture with a velvety matte finish for various application areas such as sun care, AP/deo formulations or foundation systems. The product improves the thermostability of emulsions as well as the water resistance of sun care products and creates a very homogenous film on the skin.

• A delivery system consisting of microcapsules, nanocapsules and visual beads which serve as innovative solutions for high-end cosmetics.

More info: www.cognis.com