Personal Care
AxCel® CG-PX Microfibrous Cellulose
Suspension By A Different Mechanism
Suspending actives and other functional ingredients – moisturizers, vitamin droplets, ribbons, exfoliating particles, antioxidant encapsulates – can improve the product’s consumer attractiveness and functional performance. These actives, coupled with the appropriate visual cues and packaging, improve the overall product experience.
Creating a system with consumer friendly appeal that reliably suspends and uniformly distributes these components has historically proven difficult, if not impossible.
CP Kelco’s AxCel® CG-PX microfibrous cellulose technology has been created to overcome these technical hurdles, allowing reliable suspension of actives, entrained air or a variety of decorative materials. The suspended inclusions may provide a functional or active benefit, a visual cue, or both. This tool offers synthetic performance in a biodegradable format.
While suspension in personal care products is not new, AxCel CG-PX method is. Rather than relying on structuring the surfactant or liquid phases of the formula, or increasing overall product viscosity, AxCel CG-PX forms an invisible, translucent three-dimensional network in the fluid.
This suspension happens independently of viscosity, ionic strength or surfactant type and level. It also happens without adversely affecting the final viscosity of the finished product. This ‘decoupling’ of viscosity and suspension gives the formulator new flexibility without hindering the consumer experience.
Bath products can be water-thin or honey-thick, and still provided the same level of suspension.
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Please contact a CP Kelco representative for more details.