Hygiene
Natural ways to enhance powders and deliver scent potency
ImerCare cosmetic kaolins make excellent body powders and provide great fragrance delivery for scented powders. Our ImerCare® 2K kaolin is also ideal for improved sebum absorption and a soft touch in body powders. Kaolin also offers great skin adhesion to give a longer powdery aesthetic while also increasing the matting potential in the powder.
Calcium silicates are also useful minerals to the cosmetics industry. They are excellent at delivering fragrance over time due to their high microporous structure. Calcium silicates are also effective for the creation of a dry delivery of liquid actives, and they make a great processing aid, creating free-flowing powders and increasing oil and water absorption.
With its soft, silky feel, ImerCare® 11T talc* makes a preferred base for body and baby powders. Applied after bathing, ImerCare 11T prevents chafing and gives a soft, soothing, cool sensation. ImerCare® talcs are also excellent fragrance carriers for scented body powders. The surfaces of the talc platelets retain the perfume with a minimum loss of potency.
All Imerys cosmetic products are natural, high quality, chemically inert, and offer good skin tolerance. They are not treated with chemicals during processing. These attributes enable them to be used in cosmetic products that comply with cosmetic directive regulation (EC) n° 1223/2009.
ImerCare® K grades for body powder applications are Cosmos and Ecocert approved with the exception of the sterilized (S) grades. Certificates of origin and additional documentation are available upon request.
* Talc products are not available in the US and Canada. Contact us for an alternative range.
Related minerals
Kaolin
Kaolin is a rock from which the clay mineral kaolinite is derived. This one has been used for millennia as the principal ingredient in porcelain tableware. Today Imerys kaolins bring critical properties to a host of end applications ranging from paper to paints, fiberglass to cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
Imerys Kaolins de Bretagne in southwest Brittany hosted an open day to commemorate its 120th anniversary, bringing together the general public, site employees and their families, customers, representatives of local associations, local elected officials and other important regional stakeholders. The day also marked another significant milestone for the company's future, since it coincides with the renewal in 2023 of the prefectural order authorizing Imerys to continue its mining activities at Kaolin de Bretagne for a further 28 years.
In the pursuit of healthy white teeth, Imerys has found that toothpaste that combines kaolin and delicately engineered perlite provides highly effective dental care and meets consumers’ preference for natural ingredients.
The mineral perlite is an effective replacement for microbeads in scrubs and shower gels – not only for its exfoliating performance, but for reducing plastic pollution in oceans.
