Ingredients focus: preservative technology

The task of preserving personal care ingredients has never been more tricky. It was never an easy job in the first place, balancing the need to protect the user’s skin with the need to ensure the product is safe to use for a suitable amount of time.

With the range of permitted preservatives steadily declining, this leaves formulators needing to be more creative with those ingredients that are left. Preservative ingredient suppliers are helping the task by creating blends that are effective in low levels in the enormously wide range of products that now flood the marketplace and fit in with the latest trends. 

Following is a selection from leading preservative ingredient suppliers.

Preservative ingredients

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