In skin care, conditioning is everywhere. Consumers have always wanted their skin moisturized, nourished, restored, and protected. Each of these benefits results from the activity we call conditioning.
Here are some of the most intriguing products for providing conditioning effects. They have performance properties offering "extraordinary" conditioning for the skin.
These are specialty ingredients that create memorable, distinctive features in skincare products – the kind of features that will help offerings stand out in the minds of customers.
From phospholipids to quaternaries, the products in the line are based on exceptionally creative chemistry, making them ideal ingredients for today's personal care products. Features such as mildness, substantivity, high performance, and multifunctionality are common in modern skin conditioners.Isostearyl Alcohol is an easy-spreading liquid fatty alcohol. It offers moisturizing properties and a very light, silky, soft, dry-skin feel.
Isostearyl Alcohol is ideally suited for facial care applications and has good potential for use in rinse-off formulas such as shower gels.
Isostearyl Neopentanoate is a high-purity synthetic ester that offers a velvety, evanescent touch and excellent spreading properties. Mainly useful in color cosmetics; add shine to lipstick or glow to a foundation.
Walnut oil or Juglans Regia seed oil is obtained by cold-pressing the fruits (nuts) of the walnut tree (cold-pressed walnut oil). Usually, Juglans Regia oil obtained in this way is then refined.
Juniper (Juniperus Communis) oil was the chief ingredient in gin-making. It was thought to stimulate the circulation and purify the blood.
Keratin Amino Acids are made by carefully hydrolyzing sheep's wool or deer hair down to a low molecular weight and consist of a mixture of free amino acids, dipeptides, tripeptides, and tetrapeptides.
Rhatany’s (Krameria Triandra) habitat is primarily Peru and Bolivia. However, various species are known to be found in the desert southwest of the United States.
Kukui Oil is produced mainly in Hawaii and Tahiti and comes from the nut of the kukui tree Aleurites Moluccana). Rich in essential fatty acids Aleurites Moluccana seed oil is useful for skin-softening preparations.
Lactococcus Ferment Lysate is a natural, anti-oxidative, and protective ingredient containing Lactococcus Lactis lysate. It is a water-soluble active known under the trade name Protectan™.
Lauroyl Lysine is a fine white powder, a perfect organic powder for makeup, hair, and skincare products. Its hydrophobic characteristic improves makeup water resistance and improves the flow and spread of the oil/powder mixture.
French lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is credited with many rich qualities. When used externally, its preparations had antiseptic and disinfectant properties.
Japanese mushrooms have been prized in the Orient for at least two thousand years, both as flavorful food and as a treatment for systemic conditions related to aging. The shiitake mushroom (Lentinus edodes) is native to Japan, China, Korea, and temperate parts of Asia.
This White Lily (Lilium Candidum) was popular among ancient Greeks and Romans. The Church of the Madonna revered it because its delicate whiteness was considered a symbol of purity.
Lime (Citrus Aurantifolia) oil is obtained by cold pressing the peel or steam distilled from the whole fruit.