Summary

We enable our customers to create winning brands and consumer loyalty through our commitment to market intimacy, knowledgeable people, technical expertise, innovation and indispensable, claims-driving technologies

Profile

Major Products for Personal and Home Care

Carbopol Polymers
Merquat Conditioning Polymer
Fixate Styling Polymers
Sensomer Naturally Derived Polymers
Pemulen Polymeric Emulsifiers
Schercemol Esters for Personal Care
Glucamate Thickeners
Noveon Consumer Specialties Surfactants

Company Description

We develop, manufacture and market a broad range of specialty ingredients that drive key consumer product claims and help our customers win in the marketplace.

Our products impart physical properties, enhance functional performance and deliver distinctive aesthetic benefits in a wide variety of fast moving consumer products from cleansing, hair care, and skin care, to surface and fabric care.

And now, with Merquat® polymers as part of the Lubrizol family, we have a powerful new combination of technologies led by Carbopol® and Merquat® polymers that provide performance benefits consumers will notice in skin, hair, fabric and surface care. You’ll get the same trusted formulations expertise and global manufacturing footprint you’ve come to expect, all while we build upon our collective strengths to take innovation to the next level. We’re better together, with one common focus: your success. Now more than ever, you can formulate with confidence™.

Global Capabilities

Europe
Adrian Holland
Phone: 32.2678.1911

The Americas
Bernardo Medeiros
Phone: 216.447.5000

Asia Pacific
CK Tan
Phone: 86.21.3866.0366

India
Rajib Bhattacharjee
Phone: 91.22.6602.7800

NEW For 2011!

• Carbopol® Aqua SF-2 polymer:
Enabling low pH, high clarity cleansers with food grade preservative claims. Offering rheology control, high clarity and superior suspension at pH 4.0 - 6.0.
• Fixate™ Freestyle polymer:
Providing breakthrough performance in hair styling applications without compromising gel rheology or aesthetics.
• Glucamate™ VLT thickener:
Corn-derived, free from propylene glycol, our mildest thickener yet.
• Sensomer™ CT polymers: Naturally derived and multifunctional
polymers for improved deposition and distinctive sensory in hair cleansing applications.

For the latest on these and other new products, visit www.lubrizol.com/personalcare