Cosmetics & Personal Care Formulations with Fixatives

Men's Products: This super-holding hair gel shows exceptional clarity at high fixative concentration. Carbopol® Ultrez 21 Polymer gives efficient thickening and further rheology modification.

This pomade formulation provides moderate hold and texture with a stringy rheology. AMPHOMER® polymer yields excellent humidity resistance, while FLEXAN® II polymer combined with PVP gives added hold with longer rheology. AMAZE® starch fixative provides a natural hold with excellent aesthetics and feel.

AMP-Acrylates/Allyl Methacrylate Copolymer is incorporated into a crystal clear, weightless styling foam. This product provides strong hold due to the high actives level of the fixative, yet has good properties on wet hair due to the inclusion of PEG-33 and PEG-8 Dimethicone and PEG-14. This styling foam leaves hair with a long lasting hold that remains soft to the touch and free of tack (on both wet and dry hair). In addition, this styling foam has excellent foam quality and foam cell size – created without the use of potentially irritating surfactants.

In this basic, natural, water-based formula, KYTAMER™ PC serves as the hair fixative.

This moderate hold non-aerosol hair spray provides excellent shine to the hair. RESYN® 28-2930 polymer has moderate hold and is cost effective while AMPHOMER® polymer hair fixative provides good humidity resistance.

This alcohol free spritz uses BIOSTYLE™ CGP polymer to provide stiffness and humidity resistance in a more natural working spray system. This water-based formula helps to sculpt and style wet hair and provides medium hold and stiffness when dry. The maltodextrin-derived BIOSTYLE CGP polymer is a low viscosity, easy to formulate liquid that requires no heating or neutralization, giving the formulator a simple way to create more natural and sustainable styling products. This working spray, based on the naturally-derived fixative polymer and containing no alcohol or propellants, is an environmentally-preferable way to create high-performance styling aids.

DERMACRYL® 79 polymer acts as a fixative in this powder aerosol formulation. DRY-FLO® PURE starch acts as a talc alternative in this innovative spray formulation.

Invisible Gel featuring ACUDYNE™ 180: Hair Fixative Resin.

STRUCTURE® STYLE polymer helps to create sustainable, sensible styling products. This hand-clear gel formulation illustrates three distinct benefits of this unique, natural styling polymer. First, more natural and environmentally responsible ingredient options. STRUCTURE STYLE polymer is based on potato starch, which is a renewable and more natural alternative to synthetic fixative polymers. Second, since STRUCTURE STYLE polymer is multi-functional and provides hold and rheology control, Carbomer levels can be significantly reduced, allowing for formulation cost savings. And finally, superior performance. With STRUCTURE STYLE polymer, you can achieve humidity resistance that is statistically superior when compared to similar gels formulated with traditional synthetic nonionic fixatives. Co