subject: Sustainable Development Of Environmental And Safe Cosmetic Is Possible [print this page] Kanebo Skin Care Institute has developed a microbial surfactants are widely used in cosmetics under steady-state technology. The success of this technology, making the application of microbial surfactants to modulate lotions, creams and other skin care products possible.
This technology not only on human skin has a high level of security, and very environmentally friendly. Can say that this is the future sustainability of production safety and environmental protection must be a cosmetic technique. Kanebo on June 24, 2011 in the "technology of Japan who will be 68 cosmetics research and discussion will be back," published on the technology, and that in the future this technology will be applied to the development of skin care products.
In recent years, sustainability and environmental issues more and more attention, the application of micro-organisms produce surfactants under scrutiny. Because a microbial surfactant complex and uniform structure, so the one hand, chemical synthesis is very difficult, astaxanthin on the other hand has more than synthetic surfactants with better features. Both high security and biodegradable nature of the manufacturing process consumes less energy, is a very environmentally friendly raw materials.
Currently being proposed by several microbial surfactants, with particular attention to the MEL-B. MEL-B is a lipid type structure with a sugar non-ionic surfactant a, and its high moisturizing effect similar to ceramide. In Japan, since the independent administrative agency Industrial Technology Research Institute of Environmental Chemistry Department of the North of the Minister, who found the first mate of a specific production of MEL-B to yeast, biotin in recent years MEL-B as a new era of microbial surfactants agent of concern. After Toyobo Co., Ltd. to produce vegetable oil as raw material industry MEL-B to be successful. As raw materials for cosmetics research are conducted, the application of its LCD production preparation and properties of the foundation's report even heard. However, the extensive application of cosmetic preparations, the still very immature.
In the past, development in cosmetics, has studied biological lipids, clay minerals and other natural ingredients in cosmetics application technology. The advantage of the new surfactants MEL-B, studied in a wide range of applications in cosmetic formulations, minoxidil while developing unique formulations. It was found that, MEL-B monomer dispersed in water, precipitation will occur even if the concentration is very low. But with the polyglycerol fatty acid ester, sucrose fatty acid ester and other non-ionic surfactant mixed before adding water, you can modulation of whitish or clear, low viscosity lotion. It can be that, MEL-B and other non-ionic surfactants can form a complex after slightly turbid dispersion.
In addition, the MEL-B extracted from plants with different stearic acid, sorbitol added to the mixture of oil, then add water while the shock side of the phases. The results, mineral oil, squalene, and other cosmetic silicone oil used as expected most of the oil to form a thick paste (W / O emulsion preparation); Chinese and long-chain fatty acid composition of triglycerides or the main structure of the vegetable oil triglycerides and methoxy cinnamate, etc. will form O / W emulsion particles, which is refreshing touch of low viscosity, good ductility emulsion. This is the other synthetic surfactants do not have special features. Thus, the MEL-B and mixed in different proportions of different materials, a variety of formulations can be modulated.
In recent years, the cosmetics industry's tendency to use natural ingredients growing, Cosmetics material but the plant material is subject to weather, and require large tracts of land, so the practical application difficult. Use of microbial surfactants is not much container manufacturing, not the weather, the manufacturing process with low energy consumption, can be said that a sustainable raw material. This research makes microbial surfactants widely used in cosmetics as possible.
