Suppliers of Cosmetic Ingredients, solutions and ideas

Our extensive ingredient range includes organic, natural, and cost-effective semi-formulated blends.

About

Cosmetic Ingredients (Pty) Ltd supply head-to-toe ingredients, formulation solutions and ideas to businesses.

We are a business-to-business company that distributes speciality and claims ingredients from manufacturers all over the globe to the southern African cosmetic and personal care manufacturers. 

Our range includes ingredients for skin, hair and scalp, colour cosmetics and sunscreens. Our ingredients include proven actives, plant, fruit and marine extracts, treated pigments and inorganic sunscreens, specialised functional ingredients and semi-formulated blends. Many of our ingredients are COSMOS / Eco-Certified or vegan. We select our speciality ingredient ranges to complement each other rather than compete.

We use our expertise and skills in our applications laboratory to create cost-effective guideline formulations and assist customers with innovative ideas and product development.

Focus on

 

SeaPlex is an innovative, natural, biodegradable product that is suitable for all types of hair. It can also be mixed into bleaching powder or treatment formulations to prevent hair dryness, frizz, cuticle damage, porosity and breakage.

Ethoxcare HVB is a 100% active, patent pending, cost-effective thickener for all types of surfactant systems and is recommended for sulphate-free shampoos and cleansers.

Kobo Evaluates Hybrid Sunscreens – these sunscreens are more inclusive of all skin types, have higher SPF potential than mineral only sunscreens and optimal formula aesthetics.

International Principals

Our suppliers strive to constantly meet the cosmetic industry’s needs for cutting-edge, efficacious and substantiated ingredients that appeal to consumers. We are proud to represent the suppliers we have in our portfolio because a successful speciality chemicals distribution business is dependent on the technical and commercial support offered by its supply partners.

We have listed many of the ingredients we offer on our Ingredients page, but for a comprehensive list of all the ingredients our suppliers can offer, please click on the respective supplier logo to access their catalogues.

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Hypskin vs Retinol – all the benefits without the instabilities!

Hypskin vs Retinol – all the benefits without the instabilities!

Retinol, when applied to the skin, is converted by the skin enzymes into retinaldehyde and converted again into retinoic acid.…

Save energy and inventory costs with our hair conditioning concentrate for all hair types

Save energy and inventory costs with our hair conditioning concentrate for all hair types

In times when cash should not be tied up in slow moving inventory or rising energy costs, our locally blended…

Overcoming some of the aesthetic disadvantages of high SPF broad spectrum sunscreens

Overcoming some of the aesthetic disadvantages of high SPF broad spectrum sunscreens

Formulating high SPF broad-spectrum sunscreens for protection against UVB and UVA radiation to reduce the adverse effects of solar radiation…