Personal Care

Our Science & Technology (S&T) experts have years of experience in the use of mineral extenders in Personal Care products. In fact, many of our specialists have firsthand experience of your specific market and needs having worked in the industry before joining our ranks. Good understanding of your market segment is vital to boosting your performance.

Every year we perform hundreds of formulation studies.

Our Personal Care team has in-depth knowledge of how our minerals interact in your applications. By matching exactly the right mineral to your requirements and optimizing parameters such as particle size, shape, packing, crystal micro-structure, color, and hardness, we can meet your exact formulation requirements, saving you time and bringing added performance to your end products.

Our Applications Laboratories are equipped with a full range of analytical and Cosmetics-specific equipment enabling us to spearhead applications innovation as well as providing you with bespoke formulation services and technical support.

Our S&T managers can also study your production processes to ensure best use and handling of our minerals in your systems.

Please contact your regional Personal Care Expert to find out how we can help.

Since their inception over twenty five years ago, our state-of-the-art Technology Centers in San José (USA) and Toulouse (France) have built up a solid reputation for helping our customers develop new formulations.

ImerCare^® minerals are excellent 100% natural alternatives to synthetic materials used in cosmetics today. They are natural ingredients that have simply been ground and processed with innovative mechanical and thermal processes to achieve a specific particle size and a specific morphology. They are not treated with chemicals during processing.

The majority of scrub products contain harmful plastic microbeads which slip through water filter systems polluting rivers and seas.

Derived from perlite, a volcanic rock, ImerCare^™ P-Scrub microspheres are 100% natural products, containing no harmful additives. They are an ideal eco-friendly solution for replacing plastic beads in rinse-off products such as body and face scrubs, shower gels, liquid and bar soaps. ImerCare^™ microspheres can be added at a much lower dosage level than plastic scrub particles whilst maintaining the desired exfoliation. They are easy to use, requiring only minimal changes to the formulation.

Most current opacifying solutions used in cosmetics are based on synthetic ingredients such as styrene/acrylate copolymers which can be dangerous for the environment and difficult to formulate. ImerCare^® Opaque is a 100% natural kaolin-based, eco-friendly solution opacifier that imparts opacity and whiteness to gel and shampoo formulations.

Compared to conventional kaolins, ImerCare^® Opaque has an innovative particle shape and morphology  which confers whiteness and a rich, creamy effect to gels and shampoos, giving them a luxurious, wholesome quality.

Pearlizing agents used in cosmetics are typically based on synthetic ingredients such as glycol stearate derivatives which are environmentally unfriendly and difficult to formulate. ImerCare^® Opaline is an eco-friendly, premium talc which imparts pearlescence to cosmetic gel and shampoo formulations. ImerCare^® Opaline has been specifically engineered using proprietary, patented technology to obtain a particle thickness, shape and particle size distribution which confers a highly pearlescent effect in shower gels and shampoos.

Small particles of synthetic polymers such as PMMA are traditionally used as matting agents  in foundations and powder . ImerCare^® Matte is a 100% natural white kaolin that provides a superior mattifying effect in gels and creams, liquid foundations and pressed powders. Due to its unique morphology, ImerCare^® Matte absorbs sebum and confers an immediate, natural matte effect to the skin. It is an ideal natural alternative to synthetic polymers.

ImerCare^® 400D is 100% natural diatomaceous earth. It is the most water- and oil-absorbent diatomaceous earth product available on the market today making it a highly effective absorption agent in deodorants and antiperspirants. In tests, micro-porous ImerCare^® 400D demonstrates high perspiration absorbency, controls body odor, dries quickly leaving a pleasant nude sensation and soft touch on the skin. It can be used in association with aluminum salts.

The ImerCare^® range is approved for use in cosmetic products that comply with cosmetic directive regulation (EC) n° 1223/2009.
It is Cosmos approved underscoring the naturalness of the minerals selected and produced by Imerys for the Personal Care industry.