Products in Film Formers: Anti-Aging

EPITEX(TM) 66 Polymer is a film former that provides outstanding water resistance, improved feel on skin and ease of processing in a variety of formulation types, including O/W, W/O and W/S formulations. Compatible with other typical sunscreen ingredients, and suitable for use in creams, lotions and pump sprays.

DOWSIL(TM) FA 4004 ID Silicone Acrylate is a film former designed for long lasting benefits in color cosmetics and skin care applications. It exhibits good compatibility with organic sunscreens, pigments and cosmetic ingredients. It provides sebum resistance, wash off resistance as well as comfort to wear. 

TEXTURLUX® RESIST Personal Care Starch is a personal care starch that serves multiple functions, including acting as a moisturizing agent, absorbent, binder, emulsion stabilizer, carrier, filler, and film former. It is available in powder form, making it versatile for use in various cosmetic formulations.

Fucogel® 1.5P is a purified biotechnological anionic polysaccharide (mean molecular weight 106 Da) prepared through bacterial fermentation. It is a linear structure with a saccharide sequence comprising galacturonic acid, L-fucose, and D-galactose. Fucogel has immediate and remnant moisturizing and restructuring properties, which combine to create remarkable sensory power, providing comfort and softness to cosmetic formulae during and after application. It is available in 1% (w/w) in water.

PHYTOCARE-HA™ CG 1M is a COSMOS-approved biological active extracted from snow mushrooms. It has played a prominent role in Chinese history as a celebrated ingredient in herbal, cosmetic, and culinary applications. It features powerful hydration, film-forming, and anti-oxidation properties, making it very suitable for anti-aging, anti-pollution, and urban defense formulations.

Gransil™ PSQ is designed to enhance esthetics and offers a range of benefits that redefine your product experience. With anti-aging properties and wrinkle refinement, it ensures a superior skin feel and a silky, elegant touch. This versatile powder brings non-tackiness and non-thickening effects, along with remarkable water repellency and resistance. Embrace the power of Gransil PSQ to create skincare, color cosmetics, sun care, and hair care formulations.

Water-soluble protein fraction of silk. Due to its marked film-forming, moisturizing and protective properties, it is particularly suitable for non-rinse hair-care, skin-care and makeup products with moisturizing, protective and restorative purposes.

A proprietary biobased, biodegradable silk polypeptide that outperforms silicone elastomers in beauty and personal care.clean, vegan and easy to work with, it delivers silky softness and environmental defense in a broad range of applications.

Manufactured in France, GMP certified activeOur Mineralis is a proven purifying agent, with antisebum and pore refiing proven properties. ISALTIS owns a clinical study on its benefits for the skin.Zinc gluconate can also be used in Hair Care as a dye fixative, and is particularly recommended for colored hair shampoos and conditioners.Due to its antimicrobial properties, it can also enhance microbial preservation of cosmetic formulations. As a chelate, it can also replace traditional chelating agents such as EDTA, as a more natural option.Mineralis Gu/Zn is COSMOS certified.

Tannic Acid, powder pure Ph Eur, USP is a pure natural plant product. Tannins can be produced from gallnuts. Our Tannic Acid is made from Aleppo nuts. Efficacy: natural tanning agents form a film through coagulation on the outer layer of the skin, skin barrier protectant, astringent, hemostatic, antiseptic efficacy used to treat burns, anti-microbial, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, antioxidant protecting enzymes, DNA/RNA, collagen and hyaluronic acid from degradation by radicals. Recommended for deodorants, anti-aging cosmetics, anti-acne, protection cosmetics.

Colorless transparent oily liquid. Skin-Conditioning Agent – Emollient, Antistatic

Colorless, Oily Liquid. Low viscosity oil with light and dry feeling. Good pigment dispersing property.

Colorless to pale yellow, transparent liquid, odorless. Fragrance Ingredient, Hair Conditioning Agent, Skin-Conditioning Agent - Occlusive, Antistatic, Emoillient, Masking, Refatting, Solvent

Ceramide is the main component of the stratum corneum of the epidermis layer of human skin. Together with cholesterol and saturated fatty acids, ceramide creates a water-impermeable, protective organ to prevent excessive water loss due to evaporation as well as a barrier against the entry of microorganisms. The stratum corneum is composed of 50% ceramides, 25% cholesterol, and 15% free fatty acids. With aging there is a decline in ceramide and cholesterol in the stratum corneum of humans, which leads to dry skin and irritation. iActive Ceramide PGF is an oil soluble complex of Ceramide 1, Ceramide 2, Ceramide 3, Ceramide 4 and Ceramide 6 present in human skin. This product helps to repair the skin barrier function, improve skin hydration and reduce TEWL. It is also effective for improving hair hydrophobicity and smoothness.

Gamma-AminoButyric Acid (GABA) is a non-protein amino acid, due to all its benefits; it works as an ideal anti-aging agent ingredient. It can penetrate the skin and relax tense muscles thereby significantly reducing expression lines to achieve a fresher younger looking skin. GABA is known to act as a wound healer as well. Being a neurotransmitter inhibitor is what allows for its topical muscle tone which is mostly compared to “Botox-like” effect. Research in this topical application suggests that it then improves the skin barrier. There are GABA receptors on the skin surface. The inhibitory or excitability of GABA receptor controls the relaxation and tension of the expression muscles. GABA can quickly penetrate into the skin and activate the GABA receptors, then the tense expression muscles are relaxed, the expression lines are stretched.

Heterosides is a highly purified water-soluble extract of Centella asiatica for skin barrier function improvement. This product provides stratum corneum formation enhancement, tight junctions reinforcement, differentiation normalization and activation of the deeper layers of the epidermis. Its anti-wrinkle effect has been recently demonstrated on the crow’s feet. Significant TEWL reduction on volunteers with a dry skin has been also observed. This is a titrated blend of the glycosylated triterpens Asiaticoside and Madecassoside. This is an active ingredient for use in intense skin care applications for dry and dehydrated skin, as well as mature skin. It comes as a crystalline powder.

Gliadines have high molecular weight which explain their filmogen activity. They form a film on skin producing a tensor effect. Gliadines reduce wrinkles, implying a softening effect and can be considered as an excellent substitute to collagen. Furthermore, Gliadines form on skin a network with high hygroscopic properties involving moisturizing effect on the superficial layer of skin. This active has a large capacity of water retention. Gliadines have viscosity effect. The composition in amino acids allows a nutritive action on skin. Gliadines make a tensor effect on skin, inducing firmness and giving good feeling of revitalized skin.

Gioavtive® F-1000-PF is a biological polysaccharide derived from brown seaweeds, main component of which is Fucoidan. It is a new moisturizing agent, anti-wrinkle agent, skin recovering agent and skin conditioner in cosmetics industry. It improves the smoothness and softness of skin without increasing the viscosity.

Actique™ Hyal 1% is a premade 1% solution of fermentation-derived sodium hyaluronate powder and water for your formulating needs. Using Actique™ Hyal 1% is a faster way to add sodium hyaluronate to your formulation without waiting for the gelling powder to completely hydrate.

MIRASIL™ ADMH 403 is a is a medium-viscosity silicone that can be used to formulate non-yellowing emulsions and microemulsions. It provides a wide range of benefits in hair care applications. Benefits Protects hair and skin against thermo oxidative stress (UV light, hair dryer, aging) Anti-aging Free radical scavenging Improves color depth and longevity Good dry and wet combing Shine and radiance Long lasting No build-up Skin protection UV and thermal protection Features Hindered amine-functionalized polydimethylsiloxane High temperature resistance Cold processible Fluid stable Applications Clear shampoos Detanglers Rinses Enables clear shampoo formulations and cold process manufacturing. Provides smooth feel to dry hair. Eases wet and dry combing. Brings long lasting conditioning without build-up. when used in semi-permanent color products. Protects hair from heat damage. Free radical scavenger performance allows protection of hair and skin against thermo oxidative stress (UV light, hair dryer, aging…).

COSM’OIL® KD-S** is Organic Virgin Pongamia Glabra Seed oil. It is obtained from the crushing and pressing of the seeds of Pongamia Glabra, followed by a Deodorization.

Due to its film-forming and skin-protective properties, Maricol S is especially suitable for the care of dry and mature skin as well as skin stressed by negative environmental influences. Maricol S is a native soluble collagen of marine origin, obtained from fish skin.

KERAPLAST FK RESTORE is a unique combination of all three Functional Keratin® proteins. It nourishes, strengthens, reduces breakage and restores hair structure. Improves shine and condition with 67% prevention of color fade.

Colorless, transparent, oily liquid, practically odorless Skin-Conditioning Agent - Emollient

MIRASIL™ CETYL DM is an alkyl-modified polysiloxane. It can be used as an emollient for skin care formulations, as a thickener and stabilizer for cosmetic emulsions, and as a shine booster for color cosmetics. Benefits Uniform spreading of liquid and paste cosmetics Smooth glide of stick form cosmetics Nourishing skin feel Improved spreading of organic emollients Water resistance/repellency Enhanced shine and color of pigment-based formulations Features Lipid-like organic ingredient/polydimethylsiloxane combination Hybrid tactile property Uniform spreadability Smooth glide Broad compatibility with silicone and non-silicone emollients Aids pigment dispersibility Applications Skin care including facial and body lotions, anti-aging moisturizers Cosmetics including foundations, eye shadows, eyeliners and lipsticks Sunscreens

ESP™ Organic Flaxseed Oil by Earth Supplied Products LLC is comprised of Linum Usitatissimum (Linseed) Seed Oil and Linseed oil. It is commonly used as Anti Aging Agent, Antioxidant, Moisturizing Agent, Fragrance Ingredient, Occlusive, Skin Conditioning Agent and Emollient for a variety of applications in Skin Care, Bath And Body Care, Color Cosmetics, Sun Care, Hair Care, Nail Care and Baby Care. It is a Plant Origin product.

Colorless, transparent, oily liquid, practically odorless. Skin-Conditioning Agent – Emollient, Viscosity controlling, Solvent

This shea butter meets the requirements of the National Products Association (NPA).

HYDRO-MARINE COLLAGEN V10 is a marine complex obtained by partial hydrolysis of native collagen. Native collagen is a high molecular weight protein (about 300,000 Daltons) that is not able to penetrate the epidermal barrier to reach the dermis. Thanks to a controlled manufacturing process, the long protein chains are cut into smaller peptides and amino acids, capable of penetrating the stratum corneum providing amino acids and polypeptides, collagen precursors.

FK Scalp™ is a unique combination of Keratin proteins. It promotes skin properties related to healthy scalps and healthy hair maintenance

Colorless or light yellow, practically odor, oily liquid. Skin-Conditioning Agent – Occlusive, Fragrance Agent

DL® Lipids II is a proprietary blend consisting of soy lipids, soybean phytosterols, and plant based sodium hyaluronate. The composition of these plant lipids mimics the naturally occurring lipid structure of the human lipid bilayer. DL® Lipids II works to increase skin hydration and maintain the barrier function of the stratum corneum.

COBIOLIFT is an innovative active ingredient with a marked filmogenic and tightening effect, as shown at in-vivo efficacy studies. COBIOLIFT has a 3D structure which perfectly fits with the skin’s surface forming a cohesive and continuous biological film, with lifting effect.

GOSULIN® AGAVE is a unique sensorial film former derived in a natural and sustainable way from the nectar of the imaginative blue Agave (botanical name: Agave Tequilana). The blue Agave is originated from the arid region Jalisco in Mexico. Agave grows in dry and unfertile soil, where no other crop can grow. Agave is solely born out of the energy of the sun. The solar energy is transformed into a unique polysaccharide: branched Inulin.

COSM'OIL® KD is a virgin organic oil of Pongamia Glabra seeds. It is obtained by grinding and pressing the seeds, followed by deodorization. The oil is yellow and translucent, with a very light odor.

The Nisshin OilliO Group Ltd. TOCOPHEROL 100 is comprised of Tocopherol. It is commonly used Key benefits in use include: Anti-aging, Wound Healing, Smoothing, Wrinkle reduction, Moisturizing, Skin protection and Antioxidant. Approved for use in DSL Listed (Canada), EINECS Listed (EU), NZIoC Listed (New Zealand), TSCA Compliant, REACH Listed (Europe), IECIC Listed (China) and EC Cosing Listed (Europa).