Cognis Care Chemicals
With versatility for Hair, Body, Hand Dish Wash and Delicate Fabric Care, PLANTAPON® 611 L is a one stop base surfactant blend to meet all of your formulary needs. PLANTAPON® 611 L is an alkanolamide free, very mild, high active surfactant concentrate containing Cognis’ patented alkyl glycoside technology. The product is well suited as a concentrated base surfactant for universal applications. By the easy dilution of PLANTAPON® 611 L and addition of further active ingredients a final formulation can easily be achieved.

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Discover the real power of plants: Premium Botanicals for cosmetics

Thanks to an especially mild, technologically innovative and validated process, Cognis can perfectly reproduce its botanical extracts with batch to batch consistency, thus ensuring a consistent percentage of active ingredients.  You can choose among standardized extracts (Herbalia ®) and pure products with over 98 percent of active ingredients (Plantactiv ®).

With Cognis you get the best know-how for formulating cosmetics with Botanicals, maximum safety because all products are toxicologically and dermatologically tested, and 3 to 5 years stability.

Discover the real power of nature and elevate your cosmetic applications to the excellence of high-grade wellness products.

Cognis’ high sensorial precision with a new polymer.

Cognis’s, Cosmedia® SP enables maximum precision in the composition of skin care formulations, facilitates good spreadability and leaves behind an extremely light and pleasant skin feel.

All application profiles, from face creams to lotions to sprayable systems can be accurately formulated.  The sensorial characteristics of any emulsion can be adjusted even to achieve the lightest feel.   With Cosmedia® SP the usual amount of consistency giving factor and emulsifying agent can be reduced as required or even totally replaced - the formulation even works without any additional emulsifier.  Furthermore, Cosmedia® SP can be cold processed - which contributes to improve produciton efficiency.  Its fine gel structure ensures optimal stability of the formulation at all temperatures and, additionally, its flexibility with regard to the type of emollient used is a great advantage.  Last, but not least, Cosmedia® SP will never let you down in terms of cost-efficiency because it does a great job even at low concentrations!

Introducing AquaCat™ CG518
Clear Cationic Solution

AquaCat™ CG518 from the Aqualon Division of Hercules is a low viscosity liquid cationic guar (INCI: Guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride), developed specifically for use as a substantive polymeric conditioner for hair and skin care applications. It provides unsurpassed finished product clarity across a wide range of surfactants without effecting foam or viscosity.

AquaCat™ CG518 clear cationic solution from the Aqualon Division of Hercules Incorporated offers unprecedented finished product clarity in virtually all common surfactant blends for hair & skin care.

In the photo at right, perfect optical clarity is demonstrated in three typical conditioning shampoo bases as follows: (left) 0.5% polymer in SLES/CAPB adult shampoo; (center) 0.3% polymer in amphoteric tear-free baby shampoo; (right) 0.5% polymer ALS/ALES adult shampoo.