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.

* Microtek encapsulates are intended for non-consumption products only. |