Focus on starch-based particle technologies

Martin Scott Cardinali and Tak Yu (Fiona) Lam – National Starch and Chemical Company, USA

Cosmetic formulators throughout the world are increasingly facing diverse demands from their customers, marketing managers, and other interested parties. Formulators are expected to deliver products with increasingly sophisticated performance, while also making use of more and more naturally derived ingredients to satisfy expectations for health, safety, and environmental responsibility. This creates a formidable challenge to raw material suppliers to the personal care industry – to develop new naturally derived ingredients that cost-effectively deliver outstanding performance benefits in complex finished goods.