Features

  • Use this unique anhydrous SPF stick alone or as part of your skin care.
  • A silky, light application with a non-whitening, non-greasy feel.
  • Using natural and sustainable ingredients.
  • Reef Safe.

Ingredients

  • Sustainable Yellow Beeswax: Socially and environmentally responsible beeswax. Multifunctional; makes anhydrous formulas soft and pliable, makes emulsions glossy, thick and with excellent pickup. Structurant, plasticizer, thickener.
  • Kester Wax K-24: Naturally derived wax ester of plant origin. Low melt point semi-solid, melts on body contact, provides cooling sensation. Adds slip, reduces greasy feel, dimethicone alternative. Usage level up to 50%.
  • Rice Bran Wax: Natural wax extracted from rice bran oil.Very high melting point and structuring capabilities, increases stick structure and stability. Structurant. Usage level 1-20%.
  • Kester Wax K-60P: Naturally derived plasticizer. Increases melt point, stability, compatibility in anhydrous systems, thickens emulsions and provides texture. Usage level 0.5-20%.

Categories

Main Topic

  • Color Cosmetics

Sub Topics

  • Anhydrous
  • Clean Beauty
  • Natural
  • Stick
  • Unisex
  • With SPF
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Procedure

  • Combine all ingredients.
  • Melt at 80-85°C and mix until uniform, using shear if necessary.
  • Pour into molds around 85°C.
  • Allow to cool to room temperature.

Stability

Three months at room temperature, three months at 45°C, three freeze/thaw cycles.

Suppliers

  1. Koster Keunen, Inc.
  2. Lincoln Fine Ingredients
  3. DSM
  4. Grant Industries

Ingredient Trade Name

INCI Name

%
Phase A
Sustainable Beeswax1 Beeswax 12.0
AR Cocoa Butter1 Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter 9.0
Rice Bran Wax1 Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Wax 7.5
Kester Wax K-60P1 Polyhydroxystearic Acid 6.0
Kester Wax K-241 Lauryl Laurate 9.0
Extra Virgin Coconut Oil2 Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil 26.0
Vitamin E Acetate3 Tocopheryl Acetate 1.0
UV Cut ZnO-68-CG4 Zinc Oxide, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Polyhydroxystearic Acid 29.5