Beeswax
Category: Hair Styling Agent, Emollient, Thickener.
Brief description: Beeswax is a natural wax produced by honey bees. It’s used in a variety of personal care products to provide hold, enhance texture, and offer emollient properties.
Benefits: Provides hold and structure in hair styling products, offers moisturizing properties, enhances texture of formulations.
Skin type suitability/concerns: Suitable for most skin types, including dry skin. May not be suitable for those with a bee allergy.
Target audience: Broad audience; used in various hair care, skincare, and personal care products.
Chemical composition: Mixture of esters of long-chain alcohols and fatty acids.
Physical aspect: Solid, yellow to brownish substance with a characteristic honey-like aroma.
Compatibility: Compatible with many oil-soluble ingredients.
Concentration: Varies depending on the specific formulation and purpose in the product.
Side effects/adverse reactions: Generally considered safe, but may cause allergic reactions in individuals sensitive to bee products.
Regulatory status: Approved for use in cosmetics globally.
Sustainability/ethical considerations: Natural, renewable resource but beeswax production may be linked to bee exploitation and could have impacts on bee populations if not sourced sustainably.
Brief description: Beeswax is a natural wax produced by honey bees. It’s used in a variety of personal care products to provide hold, enhance texture, and offer emollient properties.
Benefits: Provides hold and structure in hair styling products, offers moisturizing properties, enhances texture of formulations.
Skin type suitability/concerns: Suitable for most skin types, including dry skin. May not be suitable for those with a bee allergy.
Target audience: Broad audience; used in various hair care, skincare, and personal care products.
Chemical composition: Mixture of esters of long-chain alcohols and fatty acids.
Physical aspect: Solid, yellow to brownish substance with a characteristic honey-like aroma.
Compatibility: Compatible with many oil-soluble ingredients.
Concentration: Varies depending on the specific formulation and purpose in the product.
Side effects/adverse reactions: Generally considered safe, but may cause allergic reactions in individuals sensitive to bee products.
Regulatory status: Approved for use in cosmetics globally.
Sustainability/ethical considerations: Natural, renewable resource but beeswax production may be linked to bee exploitation and could have impacts on bee populations if not sourced sustainably.
