Today's trends in the cosmetic industry are driven by consumers' desire for a healthy life. This includes the increasing demand for natural cosmetics. But with that, personal care formulations contain raw materials that are more likely to introduce microbial contamination.
Challenging than is to find a suitable protection strategy since preferred antimicrobials are often of natural origin, too. What is needed are alternative concepts and ideas: Many molecules possess the ability of adding to the overall product stability. We found a way to make use of that and created a novel antimicrobial blend suitable at high pH and even effective in rinse-off formulations. With a little extra aside.