Products in Cosmetic Ingredients: Conditioning

Cutina® PES builds up good viscosity and stability of an o/w emulsion with different emulsifier systems (ionic and non-ionic), while at the same time creating a non-waxy and caring skin feel. It comes in off-white, wax-like pellets with a little intrinsic odor, and the consistency of wax with sensorial properties. This product is ideally used for body care, face care, sensitive skin, and baby care applications.

Cutina® FS 45 is a mixture of palmitic acid and stearic acid, serving as an emulsifier and consistency wax for skin care emulsions. It is supplied as small white to yellowish pearls and can be used in various personal care applications, including after sun, baby care and cleansing, body care, color care, face care, face cleansing, self-tanning, and sun protection.

Salcare® Super 7 AT 1 is a highly concentrated cationic aqueous solution of a diallyl dimethyl ammonium chloride and acrylamide copolymer. It is supplied as a clear, colorless to pale yellow, viscous liquid. This product is recommended for use in skin and hair care formulations.

BASF Vitamin E-Acetate Care is an active ingredient that is used in cosmetic products for skin and hair applications. It is an effective moisturizing agent that improves the elasticity and smoothness of the skin. It is used in cosmetic emulsions, such as sunscreens, body lotions, hand creams, body creams, day and night facial creams, and multi-vitamin creams.

Plantasil® Micro is a silicone-free conditioning booster for rinse-off formulations. It works in combination with cationic polymers and anionic surfactants. This product is environmentally friendly, easy to formulate, and an economical alternative to silicone. It has the ability to develop transparent formulations and is EO- and silicone-free. This product is cold-processable, easy to use, readily biodegradable, and 100% naturally derived.

Lanette® 14 is a myristyl alcohol used for viscosity regulation in cosmetic O/W emulsions. It comes in hydrophilic waxy pellets or flakes, and is suitable for a variety of applications, including skin care, cleanser, sun care, bath and body, men's grooming, and self-tanning.

Eumulgin® S 21 is a non-ionic emulsifier that is used for manufacturing various O/W emulsions for skin care applications. It is especially suitable for producing O/W anti-perspirant roll-ons and is available in the form of white pellets with a faint characteristic odor. This emulsifier has benefits for skin care.

Emulgade® SE-PF is a self-emulsifying base with consistency-giving properties, suited for the preparation of cosmetic and pharmaceutical oil-in-water creams and lotions. It has high emollient flexibility and good electrolyte stability. It is a mixture of consistency-giving factors and nonionic emulsifiers, appearing as white to slightly yellowish pellets with a faint characteristic odor.

Cetiol® OE is a fast-spreading emollient that gives the skin a light, silky feel. It is ideal for innovative green formulations without silicones. This product has excellent hydrolytic stability, making it suitable for stable emulsions, and a low solubility in water that improves its stability in fine emulsions.

Phytosoothe® LS 9766 helps to protect the skin barrier, which is essential for the body's defense against the environment. The stratum corneum's lipids and structural elements create a physical barrier, while microorganisms on the skin surface and deeper layers form the microbiotic barrier, which defends against pathogens. However, both barriers are vulnerable to damage from environmental factors. Phytosoothe® LS 9766 accelerates the skin's natural recovery after impairment, supporting a healthy microflora, increasing hydration, and reducing trans-epidermal water loss.

Rambuvital™ BC10059 is a bioactive ingredient that not only nourishes and strengthens hair but also supports the sustainable use of the rambutan resource. With its proven ability to revitalize and protect the scalp and hair follicle, Rambuvital™ is an excellent choice for those seeking responsible and effective hair care solutions. Try Rambuvital™ today and experience the transformative power of this innovative bioactive ingredient!

Emulgade® 1000 NI Flex is a versatile self-emulsifying, nonionic cream base with excellent emulsification properties. It is suitable for a wide range of oil-in-water emulsion formulations, including those for skin care, sun care, mother and baby, hair care, shampoo, conditioner, bath and body, men's care, and self-tanning products.

Euperlan® PK 1200 UP is a biodegradable, wax-based dispersion that is formulated to provide a superior creamy and pearlizing appearance to rinse-off personal care products. It has applications in several areas, including skin care, cleansers, hair care, shampoos and conditioners, bath and body products, and face care.

Cosmedia® A 91 is a thickening, stabilizing, and easy-to-use emulsifying polymer and rheology modifier. Its nice sensorial profile possesses gelling, spreading, moisturizing, stabilizing, softening, and opacifying properties. It is used in cosmetic bases, hand and body lotions, suntan lotions, foundations, and makeup removers.

PatcH2O® A00297 is a powerful ‘anti-thirst’ moisturizing ingredient that provides intense, prolonged hydration that rejuvenates and smooths skin. It's an instant relief that sticks around, increasing skin hydration from 30 minutes after application to up to 5 days after application. The biopolymer network is enriched with a highly concentrated moisturizing complex.

Cetiol® LC is a traditional, medium-spreading emollient suitable for modern cosmetic applications. It is a clear, mildly yellowish, medium-polar oil with a mean molecular weight and a slightly fatty odor. This product is suitable for use in skin care, cleansers, sun care, mother and baby products, hair care, hair color, bath and body products, personal care, and self-tanning applications.

Luviquat® Hold AT 3 is a quaternized copolymer for hair and skin care. It is an aqueous solution of cationic polymers of different charge densities and different degrees of setting and conditioning. This product is a clear to slightly turbid, yellowish, viscous liquid with a slight characteristic odor.

Dehyquart® CC 6 is a conditioning agent used in hair conditioning formulations. It is comprised of a cationic aqueous solution of a diallyl dimethyl ammonium chloride homopolymer. This ingredient has various applications including baby care and cleansing, conditioning, face cleansing, hair coloring, liquid soap, shampoo, and shower/bath products.

Lamesoft® PO 65 is preferably used as a lipid layer enhancer for the production of surfactant cleansing preparations. On account of its viscosity-increasing properties, Lamesoft® PO 65 contributes to the viscosity formation in cosmetic cleansing preparations such as shower gels, foam baths, shampoos, and baby products.

Melhydran® LS 9876 is a product that utilizes ingredients from natural honey that are part of the Natural Moisturizing Factor (NMF). It has an effective and long-lasting moisturizing effect on both skin and hair. The product is suitable for various applications, including skin care, moisturizer, hair care, and cosmetics.

Lipofructyl® Argan LS 9779 is made from one of the traditional beauty secrets of Moroccan women, argan oil. With the help of a 100% female cooperative network, the argan oil used in this product is collected in a way that helps preserve the Argania forest and improve the social status of Moroccan women. Lipofructyl® is a precious oil that is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids and natural tocopherols that are nourishing, regenerating, and protective. When applied to the skin, argan oil spreads easily and penetrates rapidly without giving an oily or shiny effect, leaving an extraordinary softness and sensory skin feel.

Gluadin® R Benz is an amber, low-viscous liquid with a characteristic inherent odor. It is a rice protein hydrolysate, suitable as a care additive for the application in personal care products, such as mild surfactant preparations, skin, and hair care products.

Luviquat® UltraCare AT 1 is a quaternized copolymer for hair and skin care. It is an aqueous solution of cationic polymers of different charge densities and different degrees of setting and conditioning. This product is ideally used in shaving preparations, hair and skin conditioners and shampoos, body lotions, and shaving creams.

Cetiol® LDO is a pure emollient and a universal lipid. It is a pumpable, liquid compound that is clearly soluble in surfactant systems without using a pre-dilution step or solubilizer. It is therefore suitable for clear, opaque, and pearlescent personal care surfactant-based cleansers. Combability and the feel of wet and dry hair are substantially improved, and the lipid deposition increases torsional properties, which provide more elasticity and hair strength.

Sanicapyl® is a natural complex made with an extract of Piper nigrum berries (black pepper) titrated in piperine, an extract of Inga alba bark, and sodium lauryl lactylate. It has soothing anti-irritation properties and provides a purifying cleanse to the skin that helps in the recovery of damaged skin. Additionally, it is suitable for all hair types and improves the appearance of hair radiance and sensorial properties.

Salcare® SC 96 is an off-white, non-aqueous dispersion of polymer in oil. It acts as a moisturizing agent, thickener and stabilizer, conditioning agent, and opacifying agent. Offers good spreading, suspending, and stabilizing properties. Used in conditioning, face cleansing, and personal care wipes

Cetiol® Sensoft is a fast-spreading emollient with a multi-dimensional softness sensation for all cosmetic applications. It is suitable for decorative cosmetics, as well as sun care formulations due to its outstanding solubilizing capacities for crystalline UV filters, pigment dispersing properties, and for face and body care applications. This product is a clear, colorless, almost odorless oil of low polarity and low molecular weight.

Cosmedia® CTH (E) is a thickening and stabilizing agent with emulsifying capabilities for cosmetic formulations. This product is especially suitable for cationic systems, conditioners, and other low pH formulations. The polymer comes as an off-white liquid dispersion for simple manufacturing without neutralization. It has a superior sensory profile for skin and hair.

Cegesoft® SBE is a highly concentrated form of Shea butter with a high level of unsaponifiable matter, consisting of valuable tocopherols and cinnamic acid esters from triterpene alcohol. It is supplied as a pale-yellow soft paste with a bland odor and is suitable for a variety of skin care applications.

Cutina® GMS-SE is a glyceryl stearate that is a self-emulsifying base suitable for the preparation of cosmetic oil-in-water emulsions for skin, bath and body, face care, mother and baby, and hair care. It is a white to off-white powder with a mild, faint odor.

Luvigel® Star AT3 is an associative thickener for emulsions that performs in a wide pH range (2 - 12) even under tight conditions, such as high electrolyte content. Additionally, it stabilizes very good air bubbles (e.g., for mousse applications). This polymer provides a dry and waxy after-feel.

Gluadin® Soy Benz is a hydrolized soy protein suitable for skin and hair care cosmetics, such as conditioners, hair balms, and shampoos. It appears as a yellow liquid with a characteristic inherent odor. This vegetable derived protein is composed of soy protein hydrolysate.

Gluadin® WP is a hydrolyzed wheat protein suitable for surfactant preparations, skin and hair care products. It appears as a light-colored powder with a slight inherent odor. This vegetable-derived protein has applications in after-sun, baby care and cleansing, body care, color care, conditioning, face care, face cleansing, hair coloring, liquid soap, personal care wipes, shampoo, shower/bath products, and styling.

Nephydrat™ BC10061 is an extract of rambutan peel that helps to moisturize the skin, increase skin elasticity, and reduce wrinkle appearance to make the skin look visibly younger. BASF initiated the exploration of the rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) tree’s various cosmetic properties with the ambition to ensure the sustainable use of the resource and generate a positive impact on the supply chain's development.

Dehymuls® PGPH is used as a water-in-oil emulsifier for the preparation of low-viscous water-in-oil emulsions. In combination with Lameform® TGI and/or Monomuls® 90-O 18, W/O creams can be formulated that contain greater fractions of high molecular oils, e.g., vegetable oils. It is a yellow, turbid, opaque, and viscous liquid with a slightly fatty characteristic odor. Dehymuls® PGPH is flexible in use with ethanol and emollients, independent of emollients, and cold-processable.

Cosmedia® Ultragel 300 is a cationic polymer for rheology control that is ideal for crystal-clear formulations. It is also a preferred thickener for creams and lotions due to its excellent spreading properties and superior non-tacky, rich feel. This product is ideally used in hair conditioners, hand sanitizers, skin care, sun care, and bronzing applications.