Beauty trends come and go. Above all, consumers today seek a truly sustainable beauty experience. They want personal care products that are good for them and the environment too. That’s why biotechnology and upcycling are pivotal strategies for us to deliver responsibly sourced and readily biodegradable ingredients.
We offer a unique portfolio of ingredients, made by precision bio-fermentation, extracted from red seaweed and upcycled from citrus peels.
Create diverse skin sensations with ingredient grades that meet your high standards including COSMOS®, ECOCERT® and NATRUE® certified, organic compliant, vegan, halal, readily biodegradable and more. Let’s collaborate to explore new applications and solve formulation challenges.
Explore our oral care expertise
From waterless to whitening, let us help you transform a daily ritual into a more sophisticated, sustainable and sensorial treat with bio-based ingredients.
GENUGEL® CG Carrageenan provides stripe definition and texture to toothpaste.
In oral care, GENU® SMART Carrageenan enables gels and foams that break down quickly and melt in the mouth in toothpaste as well as waterless formats.
GENU® Pectin is upcycled from citrus peels that come from the juice industry. This multifunctional ingredient foams fast and provides great stand-up to creamy gel toothpaste.
Bio-based KELDENT® V Xanthan Gum is a toothpaste binder that gives a smooth, transparent and shiny paste that is easy to extrude from the tube.
Explore our skin & sun care expertise
Discover bio-based ingredient alternatives to traditional emulsifiers for moisturisers, serums, gels, creams and sunscreens that combine luxurious indulgence with effective skin protection and moisturisation.
Upcycled and label-friendly GENU® pHresh DF Pectin helps to bring skin’s pH back into normal range and provides excellent skin feel for skin creams and shaving products.
GENUVISCO® CG-131 Carrageenan can create a variety of rheological profiles ranging from free-flowing liquids to liquid gels and solid gels. It may replace synthetics in gels and lotions.
KELCO-CARE® Diutan Gum helps formulators develop next-level, vegan skin care, sun care and cosmetics. It thickens, imparts a silky skin feel, suspends and stabilises across a wide pH and temperature range at low use levels and is compatible with polyols and alcohol.
Used individually or in combination, KELCOGEL® CG-LA & CG-HA Gellan Gum forms flexible fluid gels for excellent suspension with low impact on viscosity. Suitable for sprayable sunscreens and lotions, face masks, body butters and more.
Upcycled KELCOSENS® PiEL Citrus Fiber was created to help answer consumers’ desires for more sustainably produced skin care. It enhances the stability of emulsions, suspensions and foams and can be used alone or with other ingredients to create sensational textures, from silky serums to lotions and gel-creams all while being gentle on the skin.
Designed to meet clean beauty standards, bio-based KELTROL® Xanthan Gum provides exceptional thickening and stabilising in heat and cold. Suitable for sun products, creams, cosmetics and lotions which require a low micro count and high clarity with smooth rheology and texture.
The UniqSens™ SFE System is a unique approach to developing nature-based, emulsifier- and surfactant-free formulations that are stable. It gives lotions and sunscreens a light and non-tacky skin feel
Explore our skin & hair cleansing expertise
Clean up your cleansing routine with readily biodegradable and vegan ingredients to power your next innovation.
Derived from bio-fermentation, this pre-activated and ready-to-use cellulose liquid stabilises a wide range of surfactant-based formulation with functionality at typical rates of 0.5-5.0% to create clear-to-translucent systems. The ingredient’s unique technology allows reliable suspension of actives and scrubs with minimal impact to finished product viscosity
GENUVISCO® Carrageenan acts as a multifunctional, water-binding agent to increase hydration. It provides a smooth texture to your emulsion and surfactant systems. As a nature-based, vegan ingredient, it can be used to replace synthetics in shampoos.
Used individually or in combination, KELCOGEL® CG-LA & CG-HA Gellan Gum forms flexible fluid gels for excellent suspension with low impact on viscosity.
Upcycled KELCOSENS® PiEL Citrus Fiber was created to help answer consumers’ desires for more sustainably produced skin care. It enhances the stability of emulsions, suspensions and foams and can be used alone or with other ingredients to create sensational textures.
Designed to meet clean beauty standards, bio-based KELTROL® Xanthan Gum provides exceptional thickening and stabilising in heat and cold. Suitable for bath and shower gels and hair care that require a low micro count and high clarity with smooth rheology and texture.
