Sophim’s Vegetable-Based Components Offer Variety of Formulation Possibilities

SOPHIM offers Biophytosebum, vegetable active emollient, as a natural alternative to silicones. The supplier established the sensory profile of its ingredient due to monadic testing, comparing Biophytosebum to two types of silicones (dimethicone and cyclopentasiloxane), said the company.

This ingredient also offers a sensory ideally located between a film-forming silicone and a volatile silicone. Biophytosebum (INCI : Olive Oil Decyl Esters (and) Squalene) is judged more shiny, more easily spreadable, as smooth as a volatile silicone and less greasy. This ingredient also provides a naked skin touch. It is an ingredient of choice for sensory cosmetic formulations and more natural, said the company. It is also available in an organic version.

Plant-Based Waxes

Also available at SOPHIM is Phytowax, a vegetable waxes range of olive and castor origin, offering various formulation possibilities. SOPHIM established the sensorial profile of its ingredients due to monadic testing, comparing its Phytowax between them and versus beeswax, said the company. The study demonstrates the texturing effect or emolliency depending on melting points.