Film Formers

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CosmoSurf® DGSi

CosmoSurf® DGSi, a multi-domain polymer in sunscreen formulations, excels in harmonizing non-polar actives with polar environments. Its unique properties ensure the creation of consistent, well-dispersed products on the skin across various formulations. This silicone hybrid copolymer, developed with “green silicone,” boasts a low surface tension that enhances the aesthetics of oil phases, even when used sparingly, elevating the overall cosmetic appeal of the product.

Manufacturer: SurfaTech
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CosmoSurf® PG1-IS

CosmoSurf® PG1-IS offers exceptional emolliency and forms a distinctive waterproof film upon skin application due to its composition of stearic and isostearic acids. This polymer’s remarkable properties stem from its combination of solid and liquid domains, enabling it to create a water-resistant yet flexible and easy-to-apply waxy film in cosmetic formulations. It enhances product performance by providing long-lasting moisture retention and a smooth, protective barrier on the skin.

Manufacturer: SurfaTech
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CosmoSurf® SCD 140

CosmoSurf® SCD-140 is a patented product derived from natural renewable materials. It serves as a natural waterproofing agent, offering exceptional skin aesthetics in terms of both appearance and feel. It is used to replace ethylene (polyacrylic ester) polymers, increasing solubility, improving rheological properties, and facilitating film formation. It provides a mild to slightly waxy sensation in the final product formula, enhancing formula stability. Key features include its natural sunscreen and waterproof film-forming properties, elevating SPF and skin sensation.

Manufacturer: SurfaTech
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Cristalhyal® range

Harnessing the power of fermentation and renewable resources, the Cristalhyal® range offers a high molecular weight Hyaluronic Acid powder designed for optimal skin hydration and care. Its extraordinary hygroscopic properties act as a natural moisture reservoir, making it ideal for formulations targeting dry skin, makeup, after-shave, and even specialized care like baby and men’s products. With its film-forming abilities, this ingredient also helps combat Trans-Epidermal Water Loss (TEWL), enhancing the skin’s natural barrier against environmental pollutants. Certified by INCI China IECIC, Cosmos, Halal, and suitable for vegan formulations, Cristalhyal® offers an exceptional combination of efficacy and versatility, meeting diverse regulatory and ethical requirements.

Manufacturer: Givaudan Active Beauty
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DL Biomoist 1%

DL Biomoist 1% offers cosmetic formulators a multifaceted ingredient with numerous advantages. This high-molecular-weight polymer deeply hydrates the skin, providing exceptional smoothness and softness. It’s an effective anti-wrinkle agent and supports skin cell growth, aiding in wound healing. Additionally, DL Biomoist 1% acts as a powerful moisturizer, maintaining skin hydration and promoting new skin cell growth. Its film-forming properties enhance the feel of lubrication, making it suitable for a wide range of skincare and haircare products, including hydrating gels, moisturizing creams, anti-aging formulations, sun care products, and treatments for sensitive or dry skin. Moreover, it excels in varying humidity levels, making it a versatile choice for global development in cosmetic formulations.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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DL Biomoist 8

DL Biomoist 8 is a versatile cosmetic ingredient that delivers superior hydration and moisture retention in formulations. It combines the power of Sodium Hyaluronate and Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, ensuring deep skin penetration for intense hydration. Sodium Hyaluronate is a form of hyaluronic acid, renowned for its intense hydration properties. It helps to retain moisture in the skin, making it plumper, smoother for a youthful appearance. Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is a lower molecular weight form of hyaluronic acid, penetrating deeper into the skin compared to its higher molecular counterparts, providing deep hydration and aiding in reducing the appearance of fine line and wrinkles. Formulators will appreciate its compatibility and preservative properties with Gluconolactone, a polyhydroxy acid (PHA), is known for its gentle exfoliating properties. It helps to remove dead skin cells, revealing brighter, more even-toned skin. It’s also an antioxidant, providing protection against environmental damage. DL Biomoist 8 is an ideal choice for creating skincare products that provide long-lasting hydration, plumpness, and skin barrier support.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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DL Biomoist AcHA

DL Biomoist AcHA is a groundbreaking and cost-effective hyaluronic acid technology, featuring Sodium Acetyl Hyaluronate, a hyaluronic acid derivative with a low molecular weight of approximately 100,000 D. This unique ingredient offers exceptional advantages for cosmetic formulators, enhancing skin hydration, softening, and barrier repair while reducing water evaporation and increasing moisture retention. DL Biomoist AcHA’s hydrophobic properties result in improved sensorial aesthetics, stable emulsions, and efficient delivery of active ingredients, making it an ideal choice for enhancing the performance of skin care products and reducing formulation costs.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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DL Biomoist W

DL Biomoist W offers formulators a powerful combination of hydration and skin-nourishing benefits. This ingredient, consisting of Wheat Gluten Extract and Sodium Hyaluronate, excels in promoting skin moisturization and resilience. Its dual action as a hydrator and skin conditioning agent makes it an invaluable addition to cosmetic formulations, ensuring a well-rounded approach to enhancing skin health and appearance.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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DL Candelilla Wax

DL Candelilla Wax offers excellent emollient properties, providing a smooth and protective texture in cosmetic formulations. Its natural composition makes it a preferred choice for vegan and cruelty-free product formulations. Additionally, DL Candelilla Wax exhibits strong binding capabilities, enhancing the stability and longevity of cosmetic products, making it an ideal choice for formulators seeking plant-based alternatives to traditional waxes.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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DL Carnauba Wax

Meet DL Carnauba Wax, the cosmetic world’s natural guardian against the melt. Derived from nature, this wondrous ingredient acts as a formidable coating and binding agent, ensuring your favorite skincare and cosmetic products retain their form, whether on your vanity or your skin. Especially lauded for its safety for human consumption, DL Carnauba Wax stands out as the go-to choice for lip products, giving you peace of mind with every swipe and pout. Elevate your cosmetics with the strength and safety of nature’s finest wax.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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DL HA Cross Polymer

DL HA Cross Polymer is a versatile cosmetic ingredient designed to enhance formulation stability and efficacy. Composed primarily of Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Pentylene Glycol, and Caprylyl Glycol in a water-based system, it provides a unique balance of hydration and film-forming properties for skin and hair applications. With a high dynamic viscosity of ≥350,000 mPa·s and a pH range of 5.0–7.5, it is suitable for a variety of formulations, including serums, creams, and masks. This ingredient supports enhanced moisture retention and a smooth sensory profile, meeting the needs of modern, multifunctional cosmetic products​.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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DL HA Plus

DL HA Plus is a cutting-edge cosmetic ingredient renowned for its exceptional hydrating properties. This advanced hyaluronic acid derivative not only provides intense moisture retention but also offers remarkable film-forming capabilities, making it an ideal choice for formulating products that deliver both immediate and long-lasting hydration. Its unique structure enhances skin texture, leaving it smoother and more supple, while contributing to the overall efficacy of skincare and cosmetic formulations.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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CosmoSurf® DGSi

CosmoSurf® DGSi, a multi-domain polymer in sunscreen formulations, excels in harmonizing non-polar actives with polar environments. Its unique properties ensure the creation of consistent, well-dispersed products on the skin across various formulations. This silicone hybrid copolymer, developed with “green silicone,” boasts a low surface tension that enhances the aesthetics of oil phases, even when used sparingly, elevating the overall cosmetic appeal of the product.

Manufacturer: SurfaTech
View

CosmoSurf® PG1-IS

CosmoSurf® PG1-IS offers exceptional emolliency and forms a distinctive waterproof film upon skin application due to its composition of stearic and isostearic acids. This polymer’s remarkable properties stem from its combination of solid and liquid domains, enabling it to create a water-resistant yet flexible and easy-to-apply waxy film in cosmetic formulations. It enhances product performance by providing long-lasting moisture retention and a smooth, protective barrier on the skin.

Manufacturer: SurfaTech
View

CosmoSurf® SCD 140

CosmoSurf® SCD-140 is a patented product derived from natural renewable materials. It serves as a natural waterproofing agent, offering exceptional skin aesthetics in terms of both appearance and feel. It is used to replace ethylene (polyacrylic ester) polymers, increasing solubility, improving rheological properties, and facilitating film formation. It provides a mild to slightly waxy sensation in the final product formula, enhancing formula stability. Key features include its natural sunscreen and waterproof film-forming properties, elevating SPF and skin sensation.

Manufacturer: SurfaTech
View

Cristalhyal® range

Harnessing the power of fermentation and renewable resources, the Cristalhyal® range offers a high molecular weight Hyaluronic Acid powder designed for optimal skin hydration and care. Its extraordinary hygroscopic properties act as a natural moisture reservoir, making it ideal for formulations targeting dry skin, makeup, after-shave, and even specialized care like baby and men’s products. With its film-forming abilities, this ingredient also helps combat Trans-Epidermal Water Loss (TEWL), enhancing the skin’s natural barrier against environmental pollutants. Certified by INCI China IECIC, Cosmos, Halal, and suitable for vegan formulations, Cristalhyal® offers an exceptional combination of efficacy and versatility, meeting diverse regulatory and ethical requirements.

Manufacturer: Givaudan Active Beauty
View

DL Biomoist 1%

DL Biomoist 1% offers cosmetic formulators a multifaceted ingredient with numerous advantages. This high-molecular-weight polymer deeply hydrates the skin, providing exceptional smoothness and softness. It’s an effective anti-wrinkle agent and supports skin cell growth, aiding in wound healing. Additionally, DL Biomoist 1% acts as a powerful moisturizer, maintaining skin hydration and promoting new skin cell growth. Its film-forming properties enhance the feel of lubrication, making it suitable for a wide range of skincare and haircare products, including hydrating gels, moisturizing creams, anti-aging formulations, sun care products, and treatments for sensitive or dry skin. Moreover, it excels in varying humidity levels, making it a versatile choice for global development in cosmetic formulations.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
View

DL Biomoist 8

DL Biomoist 8 is a versatile cosmetic ingredient that delivers superior hydration and moisture retention in formulations. It combines the power of Sodium Hyaluronate and Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, ensuring deep skin penetration for intense hydration. Sodium Hyaluronate is a form of hyaluronic acid, renowned for its intense hydration properties. It helps to retain moisture in the skin, making it plumper, smoother for a youthful appearance. Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is a lower molecular weight form of hyaluronic acid, penetrating deeper into the skin compared to its higher molecular counterparts, providing deep hydration and aiding in reducing the appearance of fine line and wrinkles. Formulators will appreciate its compatibility and preservative properties with Gluconolactone, a polyhydroxy acid (PHA), is known for its gentle exfoliating properties. It helps to remove dead skin cells, revealing brighter, more even-toned skin. It’s also an antioxidant, providing protection against environmental damage. DL Biomoist 8 is an ideal choice for creating skincare products that provide long-lasting hydration, plumpness, and skin barrier support.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
View

DL Biomoist AcHA

DL Biomoist AcHA is a groundbreaking and cost-effective hyaluronic acid technology, featuring Sodium Acetyl Hyaluronate, a hyaluronic acid derivative with a low molecular weight of approximately 100,000 D. This unique ingredient offers exceptional advantages for cosmetic formulators, enhancing skin hydration, softening, and barrier repair while reducing water evaporation and increasing moisture retention. DL Biomoist AcHA’s hydrophobic properties result in improved sensorial aesthetics, stable emulsions, and efficient delivery of active ingredients, making it an ideal choice for enhancing the performance of skin care products and reducing formulation costs.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
View

DL Biomoist W

DL Biomoist W offers formulators a powerful combination of hydration and skin-nourishing benefits. This ingredient, consisting of Wheat Gluten Extract and Sodium Hyaluronate, excels in promoting skin moisturization and resilience. Its dual action as a hydrator and skin conditioning agent makes it an invaluable addition to cosmetic formulations, ensuring a well-rounded approach to enhancing skin health and appearance.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
View

DL Candelilla Wax

DL Candelilla Wax offers excellent emollient properties, providing a smooth and protective texture in cosmetic formulations. Its natural composition makes it a preferred choice for vegan and cruelty-free product formulations. Additionally, DL Candelilla Wax exhibits strong binding capabilities, enhancing the stability and longevity of cosmetic products, making it an ideal choice for formulators seeking plant-based alternatives to traditional waxes.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
View

DL Carnauba Wax

Meet DL Carnauba Wax, the cosmetic world’s natural guardian against the melt. Derived from nature, this wondrous ingredient acts as a formidable coating and binding agent, ensuring your favorite skincare and cosmetic products retain their form, whether on your vanity or your skin. Especially lauded for its safety for human consumption, DL Carnauba Wax stands out as the go-to choice for lip products, giving you peace of mind with every swipe and pout. Elevate your cosmetics with the strength and safety of nature’s finest wax.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
View

DL HA Cross Polymer

DL HA Cross Polymer is a versatile cosmetic ingredient designed to enhance formulation stability and efficacy. Composed primarily of Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Pentylene Glycol, and Caprylyl Glycol in a water-based system, it provides a unique balance of hydration and film-forming properties for skin and hair applications. With a high dynamic viscosity of ≥350,000 mPa·s and a pH range of 5.0–7.5, it is suitable for a variety of formulations, including serums, creams, and masks. This ingredient supports enhanced moisture retention and a smooth sensory profile, meeting the needs of modern, multifunctional cosmetic products​.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
View

DL HA Plus

DL HA Plus is a cutting-edge cosmetic ingredient renowned for its exceptional hydrating properties. This advanced hyaluronic acid derivative not only provides intense moisture retention but also offers remarkable film-forming capabilities, making it an ideal choice for formulating products that deliver both immediate and long-lasting hydration. Its unique structure enhances skin texture, leaving it smoother and more supple, while contributing to the overall efficacy of skincare and cosmetic formulations.

Manufacturer: Deveraux Specialties
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