Functional and sustainable emollient esters from shea

Lipex SheaLight [INCI: Shea Butter Ethyl Esters] and Lipex Shea WM [INCI: Shea Butter Oleyl Esters] are two high performance, safe and renewable emollient esters designed for functional and sustainable personal care formulations.

They provide functionality and problem solving tools that further extend the use of sustainable emollients into new, more demanding areas of skin and hair care application. Shea butter ethyl esters is a low viscous ester characterised by quick spreading and a powdery light skin feel in application while shea butter oleyl esters is a medium viscous ester characterised by slower spreading and a velvety soft skin feel. Both elegant eco-friendly esters are designed to meet the needs of today’s functional and renewable formulations and have good compatibility with other ingredients. The two emollient esters offer formulators valuable new tools when designing tomorrow’s innovative formulations, meeting customer demands and expectations.

High-performance emollients

Favourable viscosity and surface properties

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