Seeking waste products that can be used as cosmetic ingredients

SpecialChem client, a leading Fast Moving Consumer Good organization, is seeking raw materials like surfactants, detergents, polymers, oils, lipids, UV filters, preservatives from wastes.

SpecialChem client has identified clear market opportunities for formulated products containing waste-based ingredients (e.g. from agro, food, ...):

• Opportunity to contribute to the reduction of waste in society
• Opportunity to remove exposure to oil price increase and volatility
• Opportunity to invent cost-efficient manufacturing processes

These opportunities should be of interest for both ingredients manufacturers and food & agro companies having access to the agro feedstock and processing it.

The raw material from a waste source should have the following properties:

• Lower price than ingredients from a non-waste source (e.g. chemical synthesis of the same compound from another company) or similar price
• Not harmful or toxic
• No strong odor, without odor
• No strong colors (deep colors like intensive brown, black etc)
• Mixture of ingredients is ok, when they can be exactly specified and are not harmful, toxic, but high content of the main ingredient is preferred
• Description of the benefits of the main ingredient or ingredient mixture
• Own test results of the solution provider concerning the benefits in cosmetics/dermatology instead of literature descriptions of the benefits
• Chemistry of the ingredient (s), INCI
• Available in tons for functional ingredients, in Kg for actives

The earlier a solution is available, the better. A ready-to-be-used solution could be incorporated very rapidly by our client into its formulations.