Titre : |
Meeting demand for bio-based ingredients |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Julian Barnes, Auteur ; Jessica Ringrose, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2024 |
Article en page(s) : |
p. 38-42 |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Catégories : |
Biomatériaux Consommateurs -- Préférences cosmétiques -- Produits chimiques Études de marché Ingrédients cosmétiques
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Index. décimale : |
668.5 Parfums et cosmétiques |
Résumé : |
Shell discusses the findings of a global survey on changing consumer demands and preferences for personal care products in terms of their performance and sustainability credentials.
Consumer preferences are changing in line with calls for more sustainable product offerings. But how much are they changing and, perhaps more importantly, how much are consumers willing to spend for this change ? In 2023, Foresight Factory, working with Shell Insights, carried out a proprietary survey with more than 1,800 participants globally to gain data into changing consumer demands and preferences for personal care products in terms of their (A) performance and (B) sustainability/bio credentials.
The research also indicated the market gap for ingredients produced at large scale which have high functional performance and strong sustainability credentials. This gap is now being addressed with bio-based ingredients that are manufactured on a mass balance basis.
These bio-based mass balance ingredients include alcohols as emollients and surfactants based on long chain alcohols and olefins that can be used in a variety of personal care products. Chemical producers, including Shell Chemicals, offer such ingredients that are compositionally identical to grades based on fossil feedstocks that have been widely used as functional ingredients in personal care products for decades. The new grades, therefore, can be used interchangeably and without any product reformulation costs or R&D effort. |
Note de contenu : |
- What consumers want from personal care products
- Types of ingredients and their functions
- Why bo-based mass balance ingredients ?
- Table 1 : Consumer preferences ('must have' and 'nice to have') for different attributes
- Table 2 : How bio-based mass balance surfactants offer performance, scale and cost advantages as well as being sustainable
- Table 3 : Examples of bio-based mass balance alcohol ethoxylate grades (and sulfates), their uses and INCI names
- Table 4 : Prototype liquid soap used for the first two triplets of results shown |
En ligne : |
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uDKfMdtDvYVfS8kJYg3WXyKnfifBym-L/view?usp=drive [...] |
Format de la ressource électronique : |
Pdf |
Permalink : |
https://e-campus.itech.fr/pmb/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=40892 |
in GLOBAL PERSONAL CARE > Vol. 25, N° 3 (03/2024) . - p. 38-42