The natural and organic cosmetic market has been steadily growing in the past few years and according to market research this trend will continue for many years to come.
This is a major driving force for both the raw material industry and for cosmetic manufacturers: this article shows that joining forces resulted in the creation of a novel palm-free emulsifier that has the prerequisites to be organic certified. The use of basic colloid chemistry techniques, such as particle size analysis, steady state and oscillatory rheometry, has proven it to be superior when compared to benchmarks, both ethoxylated and naturally-derived. Hydration properties of the novel emulsifier were clinically tested and a full factorial experimental design coupled with microscopy and image analysis was used to investigate liquid crystal formation characteristics.
The use of alternative reactions and processes to generate chemicals was first described nearly 40 years ago by Kletz1 and then in 1991 shaped by Paul Anastas into what is currently known as Green Chemistry.
In 1998, Anastas co-authored the 12 principles of Green Chemistry, thus laying down the basics of a new way to do chemistry.2 In recent times the cosmetic industry has been benefiting from Green Chemistry, in particular the ‘no-longerniche’ natural/organic segment whose turnover amounted in 2010 to approximately US$ 8.5 billion.3
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