Texture Must Be Just Right: It is the first rule of cosmetic chemistry. Personal care products must be formulated with meticulous care and maintain their signature look and feel over time. Plasticizers can be an essential component in both creating texture and helping to maintain your formula's stability over time.
Adding Flexibility in Texture
Kester Wax K-70P is Koster Keunen's star plasticizer for imparting desirable attributes to squeezable systems, without affecting structure. Naturally derived from Rice Wax, Kester Wax K-70P increases ease of processing by enhancing crystallization control- while helping you respond to the market preference away from parabens and phthalates. Enhancing the elastic character of products that include Kester Wax K-70P means that your squeezables maintain cohesive structural integrity, and to consumers that means your systems perform to the standards they expect from your range. Textures stay creamy and stable.
Showing off Effective Formulation
A natural plasticizer, Kester Wax K-70P contributes generously in formulation. In addition to creating a creamy texture, especially for squeezable systems, plasticizers excel at keeping actives and color suspended in the gel matrix, so personal care products deliver their chief benefits with every squeeze.
Hair Repair Ointment
Formula #: 1/25-550/10092-2
When hair needs rescue, there is nothing like a waterless conditioner to solve issues on the spot. This example formulation demonstrates the way Kester Wax K-70-P brings new life to a traditional ingredient list. In a formulation that is easily modified, the chassis that suits your brand is achievable. Additionally, this vegan, anhydrous formula utilizes Kostol IBT-50, a cationic, o/w emulsifier for detangling and de-frizzing in all hair care formulations.
Ingredient Trade Name | INCI Name | % |
Phase A | ||
Kostol IBT- 50 | Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Methosulfate | 20.0 |
Kester Wax K-70P | C18-38 Alkyl Hydroxystearoyl Stearate | 3.0 |
Coconut Oil | Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil | 36.0 |
Olive Oil | Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil | 30.0 |
Virgin Argan Oil | Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil | 10.0 |
AE PreserveTM PX-82 | Musa Sapientum (Banana) Fruit Extract | 0.5 |
Fragrance “Coconut milk” | Parfum | 0.5 |
Natural Scrub & Glow
Formula #: 3/25-421/10092-2
Spa day or every day, the smoothing luxury of an all over scrub makes skin glow. Natural Scrub & Glow is an anhydrous sample formula, so you can get creative! Whether your formulation tends sweet or salty, this flexible system brings clean beauty to the bath in a squeezable or pot formulation that leaves skin moisturized and radiant.
Ingredient Trade Name | INCI Name | % |
Phase A | ||
Beeswax | Beeswax | 7.0 |
Kester Wax K-70P | C18-38 Alkyl Hydroxystearoyl Stearate | 5.0 |
Almond Oil | Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil | 20.0 |
Avocado Oil | Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil | 13.0 |
Evening Primrose Oil | Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil | 5.0 |
Syneth O13 K3 | Polyglyceryl-10 Oleate | 5.0 |
Polyaldo 3-1-S | Polyglyceryl-3 Stearate | 4.0 |
Vitamin E Acetate | Tocopheryl Acetate | 1.0 |
Sugar | Sucrose | 40.0 |
Silken Crème Lip Gloss
Formula #: 1/25-358/10092/421-10
Kester Wax K-70P really shines in this example formulation that displays so many of the features that make plasticizers go-to ingredients for cosmetic chemists. The hint of color, the smooth texture, the lovely feel, and all of it supported by Kester Wax K-70P. This natural option for lip gloss utilizes Kester Wax K-24, a plant-derived ester that melts on body contact, to create the signature silky slide that makes lip gloss a consistent favorite lip treat.
Ingredient Trade Name | INCI Name | % |
Phase A | ||
Kester Wax K-70P | C18-38 Alkyl Hydroxystearoyl Stearate | 20.0 |
Kester Wax K-24 | Lauryl Laurate | 5.0 |
Beeswax | Beeswax | 1.0 |
Castor Oil | Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil | 37.0 |
Jeechem CTG | Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride | 24.2 |
Jojoba Oil | Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil | 12.0 |
Prestige Sparkling Lemon Gold | Mica (and) Titanium Dioxide (and) Iron Oxides | 0.4 |
Prestige Bright Fire Red | Mica (and) Iron Oxide | 0.2 |
Prestige Midnight Blue | Mica (and) Titanium Dioxide (and) Ferric Ferrocyanide | 0.2 |
Formulations that feel great and perform beautifully over time is what keeps customers coming back to your products. Koster Keunen Kester Waxes are just one example of our innovative wax chemistry that is expanding the universe of clean beauty. If you are looking to take your cosmetic chemistry to the next level, contact us. Our formulators would love to discuss how our products can help you meet your goals.
About Koster Keunen
Koster Keunen has been working with wax since 1852 and has used our extensive experience and knowledge base to continuously develop new chemistries. Whether you are developing a new product, or need help with a reformulation or replacement, contact us to learn more about how we source, refine or develop waxes so you can create the perfect formula.