Emollients, Cosmeceuticals, and Personal Care
Microencapsulation of key ingredients in personal care products can dramatically extend their effectiveness and greatly improve their handling properties. Microencapsulation offers distinct advantages such as:
- Natural ingredients, essential oils, vitamins and supplements can be encapsulated to protect them from the deteriorating effects of the environment or for optimal release and performance in the final product.
- Emollients used in skincare and haircare products can be encapsulated for added product features and to improve handling properties.
- Encapsulation can help mask odors.
- Encapsulation can retard evaporation of volatile ingredients such as fragrance oils. This can dramatically increase the useful life of fragrance-based products such as room freshener sprays, shampoos, deodorizing sprays, etc.
- Active ingredients such as insect and animal repellents can be encapsulated to allow for slow diffusion from the microcapsule to extend the product’s useful life and effectiveness.
- Sticky components of products or difficult to handle ingredients can be encapsulated to improve handling properties.
- From a marketing standpoint, encapsulation offers advantages such as allowing for product differentiation, creation of “new and improved” and/or premium products, and generation of entirely new product lines.
With a variety of encapsulation release technologies available, including temperature, mechanical rupture (rubbing, pressure, impact), controlled release, or no release at all - the possibilities are endless. Please call to discuss how we can help you launch a new product or improve your existing product.