Bio-Based TEXTURLUX® Personal Care Additives

Consumers believe that personal care products with a high bio-based (natural) content are safer for themselves and the environment. Often, though, the expectations for competitive aesthetics, stability, and performance in these skincare and suncare products can be low.

TEXTURLUX® Personal Care Additives allow the formulation of a variety of systems that meet or exceed expectations while enabling a high bio-based content. Several of these bio-based specialty polymers have familiar INCI names, but in important variations for specific performance. Going to a more natural ingredients platform was never so easy, both from a formulation flexibility and processing standpoint with TEXTURLUX Personal Care Additives.

Learn more about the benefits that TEXTURLUX Personal Care Additives bring to these skincare and suncare applications PLUS access formulations you can try today.

Sprayable Lotions enjoy stable emulsions with TEXTURLUX® Stabil

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TEXTURLUX® Stabil Stokes Law suggests that if you want stability in your emulsion, you make a cream. Forget the notion of a lotion, much less a sprayable system. TEXTURLUX® Stabil Personal Care Additives (INCI: Hydrolyzed Corn Starch Hydroxyethyl Ether, 100% biobased) enables the formulation of stable sprayable lotions with high bio-based content. A distinct advantage of TEXTURLUX® Stabil is that it does not build significant bulk viscosity, even at such high concentrations as 6%. Nonetheless, TEXTURLUX® Stabil additives are highly effective in stabilizing emulsions at rest.

ACTS 21456 Sustayning Spray Lotion
Phase	100%	Tradename	INCI	Supplier	Function
A	59.7	Water			Solvent
B	20.0	ZEMEA	Propanediol	Dupont Primient	Humectant
B	6.0	TEXTURLUX® Stabil	Hydrolized corn starch Hydroxyethyl ether	Primient	Polymer
B	1.0	Velsan SC	Sorbitan Caprylate	Clariant	Emulsifier
B	1.0	Sensiva PA 30	Propanediol(and) Phenylethyle alcohol (and) Undecyl alcohol (and) Tocopherol	Schulke	Preservative
B	0.2	Keltrol CG-SFT	Xanthan Gum	CP kelco	Polymer
B	0.1	Cab-O-Sil M 5	Silica	Cabot	Thickener
C	10.0	Jojoba Oil	Simmondsia Chinesis (Jojoba) Seed Oil	Noble Roots	Emollients
C	1.0	Velsan SC	Sorbitan Caprylate	Clariant	Emulsifier
Premix B then add to A with fast propeller stirring for 30minutes Premix C then add to A/B with fast propeller stirring until uniform Homogeneous until glossy

Sustayning Spray Lotion is a stable sprayable lotion that can be made at room temperature. A very appealing added feature is that it stays on the skin after being sprayed, without dripping. A key is combining the relatively high level of TEXTURLUX® Stabil Personal Care Additives with a small amount of a thickening bio-based polymer, such as Xanthan Gum. A small amount of natural mid-HLB surfactant generally used for preservative enhancement is added to the oil phase to reduce interfacial tension and allow for easier droplet creation. The rub-out and after-feel characteristics of this emulsion are very appealing, making it a great platform for not only sprayable body lotions, but also high-end serums that would be dispensed from a dropper.

Soft Creams with TEXTURLUX® Rheo have no stickiness, sliminess

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TEXTURLUX® Rheo Thickeners should thicken. Often when formulators add high-bio-based polymer thickeners to emulsions,viscosity increases, but but the flow or feel also becomes undesirable. TEXTURLUX® Rheo Personal Care Additives (INCI: Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate, 95% bio-based) can be added to low viscosity emulsions, transforming lotions into creams…that consumers will enjoy, with no stickiness, sliminess, or jelly-like character. TEXTURLUX® Rheo Personal Care Additive is best used, like all water-soluble polymers, by first premixing with ZEMEA® Propanediol then adding the mixture to the aqueous phase or after the emulsion is formed. Natural ingredient TEXTURLUX® Rheo do not require high shear, high temperature, or neutralization for use.

CTS 21246 Nourishing Night Cream
Phase	100%	Tradename	INCI	Supplier	Function
A	62.5	Water	Water		Solvent
B	4.0	ESTERLAC Perform	Sodium Behenoyl Lactylate	Corbion	Emulsifier
B	2.0	Span 60	Sorbitan Stearate	Croda	Emulsifier
C	10.0	ZEMEA	Propanediol	DuPont Primient	Humectant
C	1.0	Spectrastat G2	Caprylhydroxamic acid (and) Glycreyl Caprylate (and) Glycerine	Inolex	Preservatives
C	5.0	TEXTURLUX® Rheo	Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate	Primient	Polymer
C	0.5	PhytoTrace Fig	Ficus Carcia(Fig) Fruit extract (and) Glycerin(and) Water	Inolex	Active
D	15.0	SustOleo MCT	Triheptanoin	Inolex	Emollient
Heat and maintain A to 85° C Add B to A with propeller mixing until uniform Remove from heat Premix C then add A/B with propeller mixing until uniform When A/B/C reached 50° C or less add D propeller stiring until uniform

Nourishing Night Cream is an innovative liquid crystalline lamellar gel network system, starting out as a lotion until the addition of TEXTURLUX® Rheo Personal Care Additives. This cream works well in a jar, offering excellent gloss and appealing ‘peaking’ during Pick-up. It also will shear-thin well enough to be dispensed from an airless pump package. Spreading is light yet luxurious. The after-feel is phenomenal.

Eye-area gels are soft to the touch with TEXTURLUX® Feel Personal Care Additives

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TEXTURLUX® Feel Most eye-area gels are built on Carbomers or silicone elastomers. Consumers are seeking more natural options. Bio-based specialty polymers TEXTURLUX® Feel allow formulation of clear gels that have tactile properties akin to both Carbomers and silicone elastomers. Firm gels can be produced in minutes with minimal mixing and without the need for heat or neutralization. These gels are soft to the touch and spread well but stay in place in the under-eye area.

ACTS 21473 Aye Yai Yai Fix
Phase	100%	Tradename	INCI	Supplier	Function
A	76.5	Water
B	15.0	ZEMEA	Propanediol	DuPont Primient	Humectant
B	6.5	TEXTURLUX® Feel	Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate	Primient	Polymer
B	1.0	TEXTURLUX® Resist	Maltodextrin	Primient	Polymer
B	1.0	Spectrastat G2	Caprylhydroxamic acid (and) Glycreyl Caprylate (and) Glycerine	Inolex	Preservatives
Premix B then add to A with size sweep agitation

Aye Yai Yai Fix has a soft silicone elastomer-like feel on application, drying to a skin firming film. The film is comfortable, not sticky or tacky. This formulation is a great vehicle for any sort of cosmetic active ingredient that may provide longer-term effects. As seen from the procedure, manufacture is very simple when using TEXTURLUX® Feel Personal Care Additives to produce clear gel formulations.

Foaming Cleansers with TEXTURLUX® Hold Personal Care Additives convey high quality

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TEXTURLUX® Hold Consumers purchase cleansers to clean. Foam is not required for cleaning, but it is a consumer cue which communicates this utility. Consumers also judge the quality of a cleanser in large part by the quality of the foam. TEXTURLUX® Hold Personal Care Additive, (INCI: Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate, 94% biobased) does not foam, but when added at as little as 0.1% in a foaming cleanser can enhance the density, the lubriciousness, and the duration of the foam. Cleansers with TEXTURLUX® Hold Personal Care Additives communicate quality.

ACTS 21247 Micellar Mousse
Phase	100%	Tradename	INCI	Supplier	Function
A	82.4	Water	Water		Solvent
B	15.0	ZEMEA	Propanediol	DuPont Primient	Humectant
B	1.0	ESTERLAC® SLL	Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate Caprylhydroxamic acid(and)	Corbion	Surfactant
B	1.0	Spectrastat G2	Caprylhydroxamic acid (and) Glycreyl Caprylate (and) Glycerine	Inolex	Preservatives
B	0.5	PURASAL® MOISTXS	Gluconate	Corbion	Active
B	5.0	TEXTURLUX® Hold	Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate	Primient	Polymer
Premix B then add to A with slow stiring intil uniform

Micellar Mousse started out as an excellent micellar water, offering exceptional make-up removal properties in an ultra-mild base. It contains only 1% mild foaming surfactant, enough for the cleansing activity, along with the humectant. This formulation with 0.1% TEXTURLUX® Hold Personal Care Additives can be placed in a foam pump, offering a hybrid system between a classic foaming cleanser (with a lot of surfactant) and a low/no foaming micellar water. The foam produced from a foam pump is thick, rich, and lubricious, allowing enough time for it to be worked on to the skin for maximum contact time before rinsing.

Sunscreens maintain SPF post immersion with TEXTURLUX® Resist Personal Care Additives

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TEXTURLUX® Resist Sun protection is extremely important, not only from an appearance standpoint, but also from a health perspective. In order to succeed, sunscreens must feel good, perform, and stay on during the rigors of life (including swimming.) TEXTURLUX® Resist Personal Care Additive, (INCI: Maltodextrin, 100% bio-based) is a water-soluble film former that can work in conjunction with classic oil-soluble film formers to create an integrated film on the skin as the formulation water evaporates. In an in-vitro SPF and water resistance study, a model sunscreen formulation lost 75% of its SPF after immersed in warm water, the same formulation with TEXTURLUX® Resist Personal Care Additives maintained all of the SPF post-immersion. New sunscreen formulation concepts are being developed. Contact Primient for more information.