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We are everywhere in personal care

Our broad range of innovative ingredient offerings is the reason why.  

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AMAZE® Polymers 
Performance…Naturally

The AMAZE family of styling polymers includes high-performing natural ingredients that deliver superior hold and ease of formulation in a broad range of personal care formulations including styling aids, styling mousses and gels. Beyond hold, these natural polymers deliver a number of intriguing performance advantages while helping to reduce total formulation cost.

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AMPHOLAK® 

Polyamphoteric surfactants

Mild surfactants that provide a unique combination of foam boosting, sequestering, and bacteriostatic properties while maintaining their inherent mildness. The AMPHOLAK series of surfactants are excellent cleansing ingredients for baby shampoos, body washes, and liquid soaps.

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AMPHOMER® Styling Polymers

AMPHOMER styling polymers are among the leading technologies that have been used in the aerosol hair spray market for over 20 years. These amphoteric acrylic polymers offer outstanding curl retention properties with unparalleled holding power for ultimate control in all temperature and humidity conditions.
 
AMPHOMER styling polymers are highly efficient and cost-effective hair spray ingredients, offering formulators the option of reducing solids and total resin cost. Other performance characteristics include sprayability, ease of combing, good solubility and easy removal with shampooing. AMPHOMER styling polymers find application in aerosol and pump hair sprays, mousses, setting lotions, spray gels and spritzes.

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ARMOCARE®  

Superior products designed for use in personal care with an eye on global requirements and sustainability. ARMOCARE products are derived from natural based materials without sacrificing performance.

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ARQUAD® PC 
Distinctive Conditioner Ingredients for Beautiful Hair

The ARQUAD PC family of cationic conditioning ingredients includes a broad range of mono-, di-, and tri-alkyl quaternaries which impart exceptional and efficient conditioning to all hair types. The ARQUAD PC quaternaries allow the formulator flexibility in developing impressive products that provide consumers with beautifulhair.

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BALANCE® Styling Polymers

The BALANCE styling polymer series helps hair care products meet low-VOC goals of hair spray formulations while providing high performance, despite the higher water content of these systems. BALANCE polymers provide additional performance benefits like fine, misty spray patterns, excellent hold, rapid drying and can corrosion resistance.

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BIOSTYLE Hair fixative polymers with a greener touch

Designed for use in styling products including clear hair gels, spray gels, creams, lotions and mousses, BIOSTYLE polymers provide high performance and a more sustainable profile compared to traditional synthetic fixatives. BIOSTYLE polymers represent a new way for formulators to create more natural and sustainable styling products while maintaining cost-in-use targets and without any sacrifice of performance properties.

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CELQUAT® Conditioning Polymers
The smart choice

The CELQUAT family of polymers offers superior conditioning in both skin and hair care applications. They find use in mousses and other styling systems where ease of combing, feel, anti-stat and high humidity curl retention is important. They offer outstanding volumizing benefits to straight hair and smoothing/defining benefits to curly hair. Skin care formulations will benefit from the cationic nature of CELQUAT products, imparting a smooth, velvety, non-oily feel. CELQUAT polymers can also be used in surfactant systems to enhance conditioning benefits for shampoos and body washes.

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DERMACRYL® Film Forming Polymers
Formulation versatility for water resistance

The DERMACRYL series of film forming polymers offer state-of-the-art water resistance and rub-off protection for skin care products that are designed to be long-lasting. These film forming polymers have been designed for use in both alcohol (solvent) and water-based systems. They are especially effective in sun care Products, and provide manufacturers of these products broad ranging formulation versatility. The DERMACRYL polymers offer compatibility with sunscreen actives, ease of use in formulation and production, and excellent economics in use.

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DRY-FLO® Aesthetic Enhancing Polymers

The DRY-FLO series of natural polymers enhance overall aesthetics and skin feel in cosmetic and skin care formulas. The polymers can be incorporated into liquid or powder products to improve product appearance and to adsorb excess oil from the skin. In both aqueous and anhydrous products, DRY-FLO polymers reduce the perceived oiliness of formulations, and leave a soft, dry, and matte finish on the skin.

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DYNAMX® Styling Polymer
Change the rules of styling

DYNAMX styling polymer ‘changes the rules of styling’ in the hair care market by offering formulators the ability to combine excellent, long-lasting hold and flexible, natural motion in consumer styling products. At the same time, it imparts an elasticity to styles while maintaining 'shape memory.’ Easy to use, it can be formulated into hairsprays, gels, mousses, lotions, pomades and other styling aids.

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ELFACOS®  

Performance Plus

These truly unique emulsifiers, stabilizers and short chain polymers were created to provide stability, rheology or viscosity control in a wide variety of applications. ELFACOS emulsifiers and stabilizers are nonionic, making them compatible with electrolytes and stable over a wide temperature and pH range.

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ELFAMEEN® 

Ethoxylated surfactants

A broad family of ethoxylated high molecular weight amines for use in both aqueous and non-aqueous systems. ELFAMEEN ethoxylated surfactants can be used as emulsifiers, wetting agents, rheology modifiers, and neutralizers for resins or hair spray polymers.

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ELFAN®  
When mildness counts

Our ELFAN family of products are extremely mild surfactants for use in personal cleansing. ELFAN surfactants are gentle on hair and skin while providing appealing foaming aesthetics with efficient cleansing roperties. These gentle surfactants are suitable for sulfate free shampoos, luxurious body washes, as well as liquid and bar soaps.

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FLEXAN® Polymers
The first step for healthy hair

FLEXAN polymer brings an intriguing range of benefits to hair care formulations. It can be used to remove cationic build-up on hair, making them ideal for shampoos and cleansing products. FLEXAN polymer’s water soluble films are strong and flexible, providing heat protection and preventing flyaways in hair styling products. In skin care products, FLEXAN polymer’s film forming properties tighten the skin and smooth fine wrinkles.
In skin care, FLEXAN polymer’s film forming properties tighten the skin and smooth the fine wrinkles.

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HYDROVANCE® Moisturizing Agent
Share the feeling

HYDROVANCE moisturizing agent delivers effective moisturization and a non- tacky, non-greasy aesthetic in skin care products. HYDROVANCE is a cost effective alternative to high end moisturizing agents. It also completely eliminates the need for aesthetic enhancing agents typically used to improve the feel of products containing glycerin, further reducing formulating costs.

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NAVIANCE® certified organic biopolymers

The NAVIANCE certified organic biopolymer family of products gives formulators of personal care products the ability to create new organically certified formulations, as well as improve their existing natural product offerings. They are derived from either waxy maize or tapioca starch and can provide rheology modification, aesthetic improvement or film formation in skin care and hair care applications. These biopolymers may be used in formulations cooked out or in granular form. In addition, they are effective over broad temperature and pH ranges, and are stable in the presence of electrolytes. Creating elegant, all-natural and organic formulations is now possible with the use of Naviance certified organic biopolymers.

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RESYN® styling polymers

RESYN styling polymers offer effective hold and curl retention properties while maintaining excellent on-hair feel. These polymers are a great choice for low cost formulations.

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STRUCTURE® Rheology Modifying Polymers
Expanding the possibilities

The STRUCTURE family of rheology modifying polymers performs as multifunctional thickeners, emulsion stabilizers and rheology modifiers that enable the formulation of high-performing, differentiated consumer skin care products. These ingredients can be used to modify the aesthetics of a formulation and deliver a broad range of beneficial formulation properties.

   

PURITY® Starch, TAPIOCA PURE

These natural polymers offer improved aesthetics and skin feel in cosmetic and skin care formulas.

 

® designates a registered trademark of the AkzoNobel group of companies in one or more countries, except for PURITY®, which is a registered trademark of Corn Products Development, Inc. and RESYN®, which is a registered trademark of Celanese International Corporation.