Cremer Care develops naturally-derived functional ingredients

The company currently offers active ingredients and specialty oils to the cosmetics sector, as well as a few externally sourced functional ingredients.

This new range of functional ingredients will be manufactured in the company’s own production plant, the construction of which started mid 2010, according to product manager at Cremer Care, Lars Jung.

Functional ingredients ​

The product line, called Cremer Coor, will include a number of different functional ingredients such as emollients and emulsifiers.

“Depending on the chemistry of the products the functionality will differ. There will be a lot of emulsifiers, solubilizers, light and good spreadable oil components, as well as thickeners,”​ he told CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com.

According to the company, the line will provide formulators with functional equivalents to a number of synthetic ingredients.

“For formulators, our new product line provides an excellent alternative to synthetic components in beauty products maintaining unchanged high quality standards,”​ Cremer Oleo business unit manager Patrick Knüppel said.

Many of them will be manufactured from the raw materials the company already has on site, such as vegetable fatty acids, esterified with glycerine or other vegetable based alcohols.

In fact, one of the drivers behind the range was the availability of the raw materials to the company, Jung explained.

“We have some fatty acids coming from the coconut oils and palm oils, for example, and we can use these to make functional ingredients,”​ he said.