HARKE UK is proud to introduce Geropon® TC Clear MB, an easy-to-handle & fully stable liquid Cocoyl Taurate from Syensqo.
Geropon® TC Clear is an advanced liquid form of the Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurates and looks set to be a game changer for personal care formulators.
Innovative Liquid Surfactant Solution
Geropon® TC Clear MB is a 28% active, high-purity Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate available in a convenient liquid form. This evolution from the traditional paste taurate eliminates the need for pre-use heating and mixing, simplifying and minimising costs in the production process while providing an improved sustainability profile for personal care products.
Geropon® TC Clear MB remains pourable and easy to handle at room temperature, ensuring ease of use in manufacturing.
Key Advantages of Geropon® TC Clear MB
Ease of Handling: No heating required before addition to formulations, saving time and reducing energy costs.
Stability and Clarity: Maintains a clear solution at room temperature and does not phase-separate upon storage, suitable for clear and visually appealing formulations.
Outstanding Performance: Delivers excellent foaming properties and ensures a balanced feel on both wet and dry hair.
Broad pH Compatibility: Stable across a wide pH range from 3 to 11, making it versatile for various personal care applications.
Eco-Friendly: Its RSPO MB certification supports the formulation of environmentally friendly products.
Ultra-Low Salt Content: Superior compatibility with salt-sensitive ingredients such as cationic polymers, natural thickening polymers and SCI.
Testing from Syensqo showcased the superiority of Geropon® TC Clear MB against its competitors:
Diverse Applications for a Range of Products
Geropon® TC Clear MB is ideal for a wide range of personal care products, including:
Body washes
Shampoos
Facial cleansers
Hand soaps
Toothpaste and mouthwash
Micellar water
Wipes
This versatility allows formulators to use Geropon® TC Clear MB in formulations that benefit from its clear, stable, and easy-to-handle characteristics, enhancing the consumer experience with luxurious foaming and rinse-off properties.
A Call to Formulators
We encourage personal care formulators to explore the transformative potential of Geropon® TC Clear MB, with its superior performance and handling benefits. Contact the team at HARKE UK & Ireland today to learn more about this innovative ingredient, request a sample, and discover how the broader range of Geropon® Taurates can elevate your formulations.
We were excited to see so many new and innovative personal care ingredients being showcased at InCosmetics in April, especially from our own principal suppliers such as Syensqo.
Here are some of the standout skin care and hair care products talked about by Syensqo at InCosmetics 2024, that we’re pleased to offer formulators:
Dermalcare® AVOLIA MB
Dermalcare® AVOLIA MB presents a natural, optimised alternative to non volatile silicones, offering equal sensory benefits without the environmental and build-up concerns associated with silicones.
Dermalcare® AVOLIA MB combines Isoamyl Laurate and Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil to deliver exceptional conditioning, lightness, and shine, suitable for all hair types. Its 1.0 Natural Origin Index (ISO 16128) rating and COSMOS certification underline its appeal to formulators seeking sustainable, high-performance ingredients for clean beauty applications.
Geropon® TC Clear MB
Geropon® TC Clear MB is an innovative liquid Cocoyl Taurate that offers unparalleled ease of handling and formulation flexibility. As a fully stable liquid at room temperature, it simplifies manufacturing processes by eliminating the need for pre-heating and extensive mixing.
Ideal for various personal care products from body washes to toothpaste, Geropon® TC Clear MB enhances foaming properties and provides a balanced feel to hair and skin. Its stability across a broad pH range and its low environmental impact, with ultra-low salt content and RSPO MB certification, make it an excellent choice for sustainable and high-performance personal care formulations.
Mirataine® CET
Mirataine® CET, a high-performance cetyl betaine, is designed as an effective viscosity booster particularly for sulphate-free cleansing formulas. It serves as an efficient secondary surfactant and foam stabiliser, catering to a wide array of personal care applications including body washes, shampoos, facial cleansers, and liquid hand soaps.
Mirataine® CET offers excellent stability across extreme pH environments and in the presence of bleach, ensuring robust performance in diverse formulations. It is supplied in a liquid form with a typical use level of 6-8% as supplied, providing ease of use for formulators looking to enhance product viscosity without compromising clarity or stability.
Mirataine® OMG MB
Mirataine® OMG MB is a cutting-edge emulsifier designed to create multisensory experiences in oil-based formulations. This powerful, EO-free emulsifier excels in forming clear polyol-oil gels that transform into oil or milk upon application, pushing the boundaries of traditional personal care products.
Suitable for a wide range of applications including nourishing creams, cleansing gels, and hair care treatments, Mirataine® OMG MB allows for high oil loads while ensuring clarity and stability. Its exceptional sensory profile and ease of use make it a valuable addition to any formulator’s toolkit focused on innovation and consumer satisfaction.
Miranol® Ultra L28 ULS MB
Miranol® Ultra L28 ULS MB is an ultra-low salt Lauroamphoacetate that provides mild cleansing with excellent skin compatibility. This amphoteric surfactant is especially beneficial for formulators working on sulphate-free systems, as it aids in thickening and enhancing the sensory attributes of personal care products without the clarity and stability issues often associated with higher salt levels. Its effectiveness in low-irritant formulations makes it ideal for products targeting sensitive skin and scalp, reinforcing its utility in developing gentle yet effective personal care solutions.
Naternal™ Care Clear SGI
Naternal™ Care Clear SGI is a groundbreaking conditioning solution, tailored for clear formulations targeting low to medium hair damage. It stands out with its impressive sustainability credentials, being readily biodegradable and non-ecotoxic.
Derived from 100% bio-sourced Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Naternal™ Care Clear SGI ensures superior conditioning from root to tip, both in wet and dry stages. It promises excellent detangling and softness without any build-up, making it a prime choice for formulators aiming to replace conventional polyquaterniums in their products.
What Next?
We are more than a supplier; we’re a full service partner offering formulation development, regulatory advice, sampling and testing. So get in touch today for more information about these innovative ingredients from Syensqo and let’s see how they could transform your next formulation.
Syensqo have developed three groundbreaking hair care ingredients that tackle some of the most common consumer hair care problems, from split ends to heat protection and anti-frizz, in innovative ways.
Let’s take a closer look.
Polycare® Heat Therapy: An Effective, Natural Heat Shield
Polycare® Heat Therapy offers an innovative, natural, non-ecotoxic solution for safeguarding hair against the ravages of high temperatures. This double-derivatized cationic guar forms an invisible shield on the hair’s surface, preserving not just the hair’s structural integrity but also its softness and manageability.
This breakthrough ingredient not only promises to protect hair from heat-induced damage but also enhances styling results, offering more control and maintaining the hair’s natural feel without buildup. With extensive testing showing significantly less damage compared to other natural products and improved resistance to breakage, Polycare® Heat Therapy stands out as a superior choice for maintaining strong, healthy hair. It even eases the combing process on wet hair, reducing the force required and further protecting the hair from mechanical damage.
This bio-based, silicone-free product is not just about preventing damage; it’s about enhancing the overall hair styling experience, making it an indispensable addition to any hair care routine focused on health and beauty.
Key Benefits
Heat protection active ingredient
Discipline and straightening effect
Multifunctional ingredient protects and cares
Cold-processable
No build-up in multiple applications
Number one bio-based silicone replacement
Polycare® Split Therapy: Stepping into Real Hair Cure
Polycare® Split Therapy presents a pioneering advancement in hair care with its ability to repair more than 90% of split ends from the first application. Developed from bio-sourced guar, this innovation offers a long-lasting solution that withstands combing, washing, and heat, marking a significant leap from traditional treatments. Unlike typical commercial serums that show a 60-73% repair rate, Polycare® Split Therapy boasts a 90-95% effectiveness, demonstrating superior performance without leaving any residue, even on Caucasian hair. This effectiveness is further underscored by its 93% repair retention rate after heat styling at 180°C, showcasing its resilience and efficiency.
The secret behind Polycare® Split Therapy’s success lies in its unique ability to interact with the hair’s split surface chemistry, creating a thin film that effectively seals split ends and ensures durability without buildup. This technology, which surpasses conventional repair methods, has earned Solvay the “Best Innovation Contributor Beauty Care” award from Henkel. Ideal for shampoos, conditioners, and serums, Polycare® Split Therapy is a testament to Syensqo’s commitment to offering sustainable, less damaging hair care alternatives that cater to the modern consumer’s demand for natural, effective solutions.
Key Benefits
Up to 90% repair of split ends from 1st use
Typical use level 0.5%
Long-lasting sealing
Resists washing, combing and flat ironing
Easy to process: cold-processable and no premix needed
No residue or build-up, not sticky
Protection for Coloured Hair
Polycare® Split Therapy also offers powerful damage protection when bleaching or colouring hair. When incorporated into lightening powders or added just before colouring, it significantly reduces cuticle damage, ensuring that cuticles remain almost intact and resulting in noticeably softer hair.
When incorporated into bleaching or colouring products, Polycare® Split Therapy also reduced colour fade over time, so hair was less dull after multiple washes.
Polycare® Frizz Therapy: Anti-Frizz Solution for Durable Shape
INCI: Polymethacrylamido-propyltrimonium Chloride
Polycare® Frizz Therapy is a groundbreaking synthetic, low-viscosity cationic polymer designed to combat frizz effectively in both straight and curly hair. Boasting superior performance over current market leaders, this ingredient operates by neutralising the negative charge in damaged or wet hair, reducing frizz significantly.
It offers exceptional humidity resistance for up to three days, ensures durable shape and discipline, and is ideal for daily application due to its high solubility in common solvents and non-greasy, non-sticky nature.
Polycare® Frizz Therapy is not just about controlling frizz; it’s also about enhancing the overall health and appearance of hair. With benefits like no negative sensory impact, superior heat protection, and suitability for minimalist beauty regimes, this ingredient supports a simplified beauty routine while providing effective frizz control and heat defence. It’s perfect for use in a variety of hair care formulations, including leave-in treatments and creams.
Key Benefits
High humidity resistance
Not greasy, not sticky, no flakes
No build up, no stiffening/cardboard effect
Ideal for daily use
Heat protection
If you want to learn more about how to incorporate Syensqo’s Polycare® Therapies for Hair into your formulation, or if you’d like to request a sample, please get in touch.
In the evolving landscape of home care products, sustainability and efficacy are paramount. HARKE UK is proud to introduce Rheozan® BLC, a groundbreaking solution from Syensqo that embodies both. As a 100% natural suspension agent, Rheozan® BLC offers an eco-friendly alternative to traditional chemical agents in various home care applications.
What is Rheozan® BLC?
Rheozan® BLC is a natural polymer, produced through a non-GMO biotech fermentation process. It utilises bacterial cellulose from the Komagataeibacter species, refined through stages of fermentation, purification, and activation. This innovative product forms a three-dimensional nanofibers network that enhances the suspension of particulates in concentrated surfactant formulas without altering the viscosity, a common challenge in traditional products.
Key Benefits of Rheozan® BLC
Enhanced Suspension Capabilities
Rheozan® BLC ensures stable suspension at a remarkably low active loading (~500 ppm) for various applications, such as fragrance capsules in laundry detergents. This strong suspension power is maintained without impacting the viscosity of the formulation, allowing for more aesthetic and functional flexibility in product design. Rheozan® BLC also stabilises low viscosity spray emulsions (like furniture polishes) and cream cleansers.
Compatibility and Versatility
Rheozan® BLC excels across a broad pH spectrum and is compatible with enzymes, making it an ideal choice for a variety of home care products. It comes in liquid form and is easy to incorporate with low-energy mixing, making it valuable for diverse formulations, from liquid laundry detergent to hand dishwashing liquids.
Sustainability at Its Core
Rheozan® BLC is not only 100% natural but also readily biodegradable. It meets upcoming EU regulations, including those concerning microplastics and biodegradability, making it a forward-thinking choice for brands committed to environmental responsibility.
Real-World Applications
From enhancing the functionality of laundry sanitizers by suspending high concentrations of fragrance capsules, to stabilising cream cleansers and low viscosity spray emulsions, Rheozan® BLC is transforming home care products. It also allows for the incorporation of visual cues like golden nylon particles or opacifiers, adding to the sensory and visual appeal of consumer products.
To learn more about how Rheozan® BLC can revolutionise your home care products, and to get more data on its various home care applications, contact us today.
In the ever-evolving landscape of personal care, staying ahead of consumer demands is paramount. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce two groundbreaking additions from Syensqo: Geropon® T-77 and Geropon® TC 95 P. In this blog, we’ll take a look at each including their applications.
Solvay’s decision to launch Syensqo – a standalone company that will run its speciality activities – was announced at the beginning of December 2023 following an extraordinary meeting in which 99.53% of shareholders supported the separation.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen a significant change in the personal care industry as we all collectively become more conscious of our environmental impact. Consumers’ expectations are changing, with more emphasis being put on choosing eco-friendly products that contain well-sourced ingredients and provide significant wellness benefits. In addition, the tightening of regulations around the use of microplastics means that many formulators are now searching for alternatives to synthetic ingredients.
Climate change is a global emergency that’s affecting everyone – every individual, community, country and organisation. It’s therefore absolutely vital that we all continue to work together to collectively reduce our environmental impact as much as possible.
Many organisations are already working hard to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, and for personal care formulators to achieve this goal they need to review each product’s entire lifecycle: looking at how their ingredients are sourced, how the product is manufactured and distributed, how it’s used by the consumer and finally how it’s disposed.
In a world increasingly focused on sustainable, eco-friendly solutions, Syensqo’s range of biodegradable polymers is making waves in the beauty and personal care industry. Naternal™ offers a green alternative to traditional ingredients, aligning perfectly with the growing demand for environmentally conscious products. In this blog, we’ll explore the Naternal™ range, its various grades, composition, and how they can be used in different formulations for hair and skin care.
Want to take your anti-frizz formulations to the next level? Then take a look at Solvay’s impressive Polycare® Frizz Therapy: a synthetic low-viscosity cationic polymer that offers outstanding anti-frizz performance for straight or curly hair compared to the industry’s leading benchmark.
In this blog post we’ll be discussing how Polycare® Frizz Therapy works, what makes it so unique and how you can get your hands on it.
Polycare® Frizz Therapy: how does it work?
Using advanced technology, Polycare® Frizz Therapy works by counteracting the most common cause of frizzy hair, which often occurs by damaged or wet hair becoming negatively charged. Through static attraction, Polycare® Frizz Therapy’s positively charged properties neutralise negatively charged hair and minimise frizz. This innovative ingredient also provides a high resistance to humidity for up to three days, maintains durable shape and long-lasting discipline, and is suitable for daily use.
The visual assessment below shows the effect of Polycare® Frizz Therapy over three days:
Key features
Comes in a liquid concentrated form (32–34% active matter)
Readily soluble in many common solvents such as water, alcohols and glycols
Suitable for daily use
Offers high humidity resistance for up to three days
Provides excellent heat protection and is non-greasy and non-sticky
REACH compliant
Listed under the Inventory of Existing Cosmetic Ingredients in China (IECIC)
Applications
Polycare® Frizz Therapy is most effective when used in preventative leave-in treatments and creams before hot tools or styling instruments are used. However, it has also proven to have good anti-frizz capabilities in leave-on products, sprays and creams. Products that are formulated with Polycare® Frizz Therapy also result in no flakes, no build up and no cardboard effect.
Benefits
Here are some of the key benefits that Polycare® Frizz Therapy can bring to your anti-frizz hair care formulations:
No negative sensory impact
In addition to its outstanding anti-frizz properties, the visual assessment from Solvay identified that Polycare® Frizz Therapy also provides a natural, non-greasy and non-sticky look with no negative sensory impact (see Solvay’s website for details).
Superior heat protection
Polycare® Frizz Therapy offers superb heat protection properties by increasing the matrix crosslink density of the hair and improving the structural integrity of ordered hair proteins, when compared to untreated hair. This lowers the damage caused by straighteners and other heat styling products, and means that the hair is better protected over repeated applications.
Answers the demand for minimalist beauty care products
Minimalist beauty care (or ‘skinimalism’) is a hot topic in both the beauty and hair care industries, with many consumers now actively searching for products that simplify their beauty and hair care regimes. Polycare® Frizz Therapy taps into this demand, with its combination of outstanding anti-frizz properties and heat protection capabilities, helping the consumer to save both money and time!
