TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Cosmetics Skin Care
At the SEPAWA Congress in Berlin, October 25-27, BASF presented the company’s latest solutions for the home care and industrial & institutional (I&I) cleaning and personal care markets.
These offers are part of BASF’s Care Chemicals Initiative Care 360° – Solutions for Sustainable Life, the division’s cross-business and holistic approach to cover all topics impacting the future of key markets and industries: sustainability, digitalization, innovation, and new approaches to working together.
BASF shared booths 137-139, 154-155, 142, and 151-152 with its European sales organization, BTC Europe.
New O/W Emulsifier for Natural Personal Care Formulations
The majority of consumers are looking for a more conscious approach to consumer goods, which also has a positive impact on their own contentment. They are interested in natural products that improve their emotional well-being and skin health.
With the launch of Emulgade® Verde 10 MS, BASF is expanding its polyglyceryl fatty acid ester technology for natural formulations and supporting current market developments. The new versatile O/W emulsifier offers sustainability benefits and proven high performance. Emulgade® Verde 10 MS is readily biodegradable and based on 100% renewable feedstocks. This COSMOS-approved ingredient is preservative-free and manufactured using an environmentally friendly solvent-free process.
It is a robust and flexible emulsifier that provides good stability in O/W creams and lotions and shows excellent compatibility with commonly used cosmetic ingredients, including both synthetic and biopolymers. Emulgade Verde 10 MS is suitable for a wide range of cosmetic formulations, providing shear thinning behavior and supporting easy distribution on the skin. Dermatological tests show that it is suitable for sensitive skin. Furthermore, this O/W emulsifier can be used for microbiome-friendly concepts.
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Transparency on Sustainability through Digital Progress
Even today, formulators face the challenge of adapting traditional ingredients to increasing market demands for more sustainable alternatives. There are rarely one-to-one replacements, but instead, formulations need to be rethought and rebuilt.
With the Product Carbon Footprints (PCF) of BASF’s personal care portfolio integrated into the digital service D’lite, customers are able to gain insights into the total greenhouse gas emissions generated by the products they purchase from BASF. The company uses a proprietary digital solution to calculate cradle-to-gate PCF to meet growing customer needs for more environmental impact transparency. Cradle-to-gate is defined as the assessment of a partial carbon footprint from resource extraction (cradle) to BASF’s factory gate (gate). BASF’s PCF calculations are based on greenhouse gas emissions from its own plants as well as high-quality average data for purchased raw materials and purchased energy using a methodology in line with the relevant international standard ISO 14067:2018.
In addition, D’lite presents further sustainability aspects relevant to customers. The product information relating to sustainability labels provides customers with the transparency they need to design their formulations in line with the label from the outset. The digital service reports on a variety of certifications, including EU Ecolabel, COSMOS, and NATRUE. This service is constantly being expanded and adapted to the latest sustainability developments in the market.
With D’lite, BASF offers the possibility of simplifying this work in the laboratory and at the same time saving considerable time when repositioning in the market. The digital service is constantly being developed and supplemented with new components that enable formulators to efficiently develop sustainable products.
Moving Towards a More Sustainable Future
Responding to growing customer demand for change, BASF’s Personal Care businesses is developing further sustainable additions to its broad portfolio.
“The Personal Care unit is particularly focused on driving sustainable innovations due to its proximity to the end consumer,” said Dr Becky Stiles, Head of Applied Sustainability, EU & APAC, Care Chemicals, BASF.
“I’m pleased that we’re taking responsibility and offering our customers opportunities to increase transparency and sustainability in their value chains.”
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BASF experts prepared lectures contributing to the ’Forum for Innovations’, the ’European Detergents Conference’ and the ’Scientific Conference’.
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Source: BASF
