Personal Care
For personal care specialists seeking sustainable and innovative products, CellOx offers a versatile, eco-friendly solution.
Benefits with our material
For personal care specialists seeking sustainable and innovative products, CellOx offers a versatile, eco-friendly solution.
Derived from sustainably managed Nordic forests, CellOx is a groundbreaking cellulose-based ingredient that is both fully bio-based and biodegradable. With its multifunctional properties, CellOx can enhance formulations as a thickener, emulsifier, particle stabilizer, foam stabilizer, and more-bringing exceptional performance and environmental benefits to your products.
Discover the power of CellOx and reimagine what’s possible with a truly sustainable ingredient.
Key features
- Non-sticky, non-tacky skin feel
- Hot or Cold-processable
- Transparent
- Colorless
Available as
Dry & easily re-dispersible solid for easy formulation
Native transparent hydrogel
CellOx as a thickener
Add viscosity to the formulation to allow for pick-up, sprayability, pumpability etc.
- High transparency & pronounced shear thinning
- Not tacky or sticky
- Fast rub-in
- Compatible with nonionic ingredients
Images: CellOx + glycerol + isododecane + violet pigment (left), CellOx + glycerol + caramel pigment (right)
CellOx as an emulsifier
Blend oil with water, create Pickering emulsions.
- Stand-alone emulsifier for mixing isododecane with water
- Co-emulsifier for mixing canola oil or olive oil with water
Image: 40 vol. % colored isododecane in water (left), CellOx + 40 vol. % colored isododecane in water (right)
CellOx as a stabilizer for particles
Suspend particles in the formulation, even at very low viscosity.
- pH 7, 0.75 wt. %: Stabilize particles, with low viscosity
- pH 5, 0.50 wt. %: Stabilize particles, with viscosity like water
- Can also stabilize Au particles, TiO2 & ZnO
Images: CellOx 0.5 wt. %, 0.75 wt. %, 1.0 wt. % and 1.25 wt. % with suspended carbon particles at pH 7
CellOx as a stabilizer for foam
Enhance and stabilize foam with CellOx in formulations.
Reduce the need for surfactants and enable the creation of gentler, more skin-friendly cleansing products
Image: 5 wt. % dodecyl glucoside in 1 wt. % Xanthan gum (up), 5 wt. % dodecyl glucoside in 1 wt. % CellOx after hand stirring (down)
