Liquids

Crystal OPC

It's not a solid! It's not a liquid! It's not a gel!

It's a.........................new soft-solid creamy body wash base.

Product Benefits

• It has a novel form, giving Stephenson Personal Care customers the opportunity to differentiate their product.
• It can be used for shower, bath or facial wash applications.
• It offers a variety and convenience of delivery formats.
• It can be filled into jars or tubes.
• It produces a creamy lather with copious foam.
• It is mild (according to the Zein test).
• Neutral pH.
• Just melt, add colour and fragrance, and pour.
• It is moisturising due to its high glycerine content.

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Liquid Crystal Suspending Body Wash

A ready-made body wash capable of suspending a varieyt of suspendable products

Product Benefits

• Requires only perfume, colour and products for suspension.
• Capable of taking any suspendable product.
• Neutral odour provides excellent fragrance lift.

Liquid Crystal Suspending Body Wash

This ready made body wash only requires the addition of colour, fragrance and your suspending items. The variety of suspendable products will enable truly innovative products, suspending cosmetic glitter, beads, poppy seeds and other exfoliants, to name but a few

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Liquid Crystal Concentrate

A 50% active, concentrated blend of surfactants that can be used for the formulation of shampoos, shower gels or liquid soaps

Product Benefits

• Low viscosity at a high concentration resulting in improved manufacturing efficiencies.
• Capable of being diluted down with water to the required concentration of the finished formula.
• Neutral odour provides excellent fragrance lift.

Liquid Crystal Concentrate

The Liquid Crystal system provides a simple way of producing a variety of Personal Care Cleansing products of consistent quality. It allows you to efficiently and cost effectively manufacture a range of cleansing products, including Shower Gels, Shampoos and Foam Baths. Pearlised cleansing products can be produced by the addition of Liquid Pearl, thereby increasing the number of possible variants. Liquid Crystal Concentrate is a careful blend of anionic and non-ionic surfactants with foam boosters and stabilisers, together with conditioning agents that have a long history of use in Personal Care Cleansing Products. It is balanced to neutral pH and will produce copious amounts of dense, creamy lather that can be rinsed away easily and completely.

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Liquid Organic Castile Soap

A natural liquid soap base that simply requires the addition of fragrance and colour.

Product Benefits

• A true liquid soap.
• Contains no surfactants.
• Vegetable origin.
• Has a natural clear pale amber colour.
• Requires only the addition of fragrance and colour.

Why use a true liquid soap?

There are many skin cleansing preparations available and many are sold as 'Soap'. This may be misleading as true soap is the product derived from natural oil and fats. Some 'Soaps' are in fact synthetic detergents and may be derived from crude petroleum. Even detergents derived from 'natural' fatty alcohols are far from 'natural'. So called 'natural' fatty alcohols certainly use natural fatty oils or fats as starting materials but they are then heavily processed to convert them to alcohols. The alcohols are then further reacted chemically with things like ethylene oxide and sulphuric acid. The end products are far from natural and they certainly aren't soap!

Synthetic detergents have been around for about 80 years and have been used in personal care products for much less that that, about 50 years. Soaps have a slightly longer track record in personal care having been used for at least 2000 years. In this time there has been little or no evidence of adverse skin reaction to soap. Contrast this with the 50 year track record of synthetic detergents; adverse reactions such as eczema are well documented and not exactly uncommon.

So how is soap made? Fatty oils are heated with a neutralising alkali such as sodium hydroxide for solid soap or potassium hydroxide for liquid soap. A reaction takes place in which the alkali is neutralised by the oil to produce soap and glycerine is split off from the oil. In our organic liquid castille soap the glycerine is left in the soap where it is available to act as a moisturising humectant. and thats it; no further processing, no high energy chemical reactions, no toxic ethylene oxide, no corrosive sulphuric acid.

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Body Wash Base

Contains a natural liquid soap base derived from organic oils, blended with gentle surfactant & skin enhancing ingredients. Simply requires the addition of fragrance and can readily be thickened by salt.

Product Benefits

• Allows production of an Organic certified* body wash, if the converter/filler have organic certification.
• Contains a true liquid soap derived from Certified Organic Sunflower and Coconut oils.
• Blended with gentle surfactants, that are approved by the Soil Association**, to provide masses of creamy lather.
• Contains Organic glycerine and a skin re-fatting ingredient derived from Palm Kernel, to provide a pleasant skin feel.
• Vegetable origin.
• Has a natural clear to translucent pale yellow colour.
• Fully formulated base that only requires the addition of fragrance or essential oils, or colour.
• Readily thickened, if required, by the addition of common salt (Sodium Chloride).To gain organic certification use salt tablets with no anti-caking agent.

Organic Certification

Body Wash base has organic certification by the Soil Association (UK)** that states it contains 81.98% Organic ingredients. Soil Association organic certification ensures the integrity of the products in relation to the environmental impact of their farming and the long-term sustainability of the crops. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides are permitted in the growing of the crop. The same stringent controls apply in the extraction and refining of the oils from the crop, for example no bleaching or chemical distillation is permitted.

The organic liquid soap base that is used, contains the natural glycerine from the organic oils, something that is often chemically removed as part of the refining and distillation process, and which provides good skin feel characteristics. The Organic Body Wash base not only helps protect the environment from intensive farming methods and chemical treatment of natural ingredients, but also passes these benefits directly to your skin.

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