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Sumac Wax
Sumac wax (INCI Rhus Succedanea Fruit Cera) is chemically a triglyceride rather than a true wax, which makes it soft and tacky. Formulators use that stickiness deliberately for cling and adhesion in pomades, balms and lip products.
Sunflower Wax
Sunflower wax (INCI Helianthus Annuus Seed Cera) is the most efficient natural oil structurant in cosmetic use, forming a firm gel at only 2 to 3 percent. It gives a cleaner, less draggy spread than harder waxes at equal firmness.
Jasmine Floral Wax
Jasmine floral wax is the wax fraction left when jasmine absolute is washed out of the concrete. In cosmetics it is used at a few percent as a fragrant structuring wax, carrying genuine flower volatiles rather than added fragrance.
Michelia Alba Floral Wax
Michelia alba floral wax is recovered during white champaca absolute production. In cosmetic use it lends structure to anhydrous bases along with a fresh, green, tea-like floral note quite unlike heavier white florals.
Osmanthus Floral Wax
Osmanthus floral wax is the wax fraction from osmanthus absolute production. Used at a few percent in balms and solid perfumes, it contributes both hardness and the flower's apricot and leather character.
Rose Centifolia Floral Wax
Rose centifolia floral wax is recovered during production of rose absolute. As a cosmetic ingredient it structures anhydrous bases while releasing a soft, honeyed rose note that warms out on skin rather than projecting.
Fully Refined Paraffin Wax
Fully refined paraffin wax (INCI Paraffin) is deoiled below 0.5 percent, which is the threshold for cosmetic use. In formulation it gives a firm, inert, odourless structure with none of the reactivity of a vegetable-derived wax.
Microcrystalline Wax
Microcrystalline wax (INCI Cera Microcristallina) is used in cosmetics for flexibility rather than hardness. Its small, irregular crystals give sticks resistance to snapping and hold oil that would otherwise sweat out of the base.
Glyceryl Stearate & PEG-100 Stearate
Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate (INCI as named) pairs a low-HLB and a high-HLB emulsifier. That combination holds across a broad range of oil phases without being matched to a specific oil, and gives a light, silky feel.
Cetearyl Alcohol & Polysorbate 60
Cetearyl alcohol and polysorbate 60 (INCI as named) is a self-emulsifying non-ionic system. Polysorbate 60 does the emulsifying, cetearyl alcohol stiffens the interfacial film and thickens, and neither builds a robust cream alone.
PEG-8 Beeswax
PEG-8 beeswax (INCI PEG-8 Beeswax) is beeswax with PEG chains grafted on, so it emulsifies as well as structures. It lets a cream be built around beeswax without the greasy weight of a traditional beeswax and borax system.
PEG-75 Lanolin
PEG-75 lanolin (INCI PEG-75 Lanolin) is lanolin ethoxylated until fully water-soluble. It deposits a light conditioning film from a rinse-off product without the cloudiness insoluble lanolin would cause in a clear formulation.
Lanolin Alcohol
Lanolin alcohol (INCI Lanolin Alcohol) is the sterol-rich fraction of lanolin. Its cholesterol content is one of the three lipid classes forming the skin's own barrier, which is why it is so well tolerated on damaged skin.
Soap Noodles
Soap noodles are semi-finished extruded soap bought by bar manufacturers who want to skip saponification and drying. Total fatty matter sets bar hardness; the palm to palm kernel ratio trades bar life against lather speed.
Palm Stearic Acid
Palm stearic acid is a graded blend of palmitic and stearic chains sold by titre, not a pure compound. In cosmetics it is the acid half of the stearic acid and triethanolamine pair that forms classic vanishing creams.
Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Wax
Fischer-Tropsch wax is synthesised from carbon monoxide and hydrogen rather than refined from crude oil. The synthetic route gives long, highly linear chains, so it is harder and higher melting than an equivalent paraffin.