Profile
With 80 years of experience in the silicones industry, Momentive has accumulated extensive knowledge and developed advanced capabilities in cosmetic formulations. This expertise allows us to create products that excel in performance, texture, touch, and appearance. By collaborating with customers and following global trends, Momentive’s Beauty and Personal Care portfolio brings together ingredients that enhance formulations with visible and tangible consumer benefits.
Our portfolio includes performance ingredients including film formers, emollients, sensory enhancers, and other solutions to help formulators achieve their desired results. Whether seeking long-lasting transfer resistance or soft focus in color cosmetics, improved spreadability in sun care products, frizz control and conditioning for hair, or a velvety feel for skin care products, Momentive offers a broad range of solutions, including the Harmonie™ product range, which delivers high performance and features increased content from biobased renewable feedstocks.
Find your HARMONIE™
When science and nature work together, you find HARMONIE™
Today’s informed and engaged beauty consumers are challenging formulators to innovate and align their products with the latest trends. The Harmonie product range offers an ideal solution for manufacturers looking to elevate their cosmetics lines.
Harmonie has been designed to provide the best of both worlds for beauty and personal care brands that are committed to improving the naturality index of products without compromising on performance. This product range combines Momentive’s technical expertise with naturally derived plant and mineral feedstocks, offering high-performance personal care ingredients with higher content from biobased renewable feedstocks.
HarmonieTM GB-2301 blend
Harmonie GB-2301 blend is a naturally derived gum blend that brings exceptional conditioning and sensory benefits to the beauty routine. Featuring a naturality index of 0.57 (ISO 16128), it is the ideal alternative to traditional silicone gum blends. It can be used in several applications and is particularly effective in hair serums and oils, where it helps to smooth hair, reduce frizz and flyaways, add gloss, and leave hair feeling soft and silky.
HARMONIE Soft fluid
Harmonie Soft fluid is a lightweight, naturally derived emollient, solvent, and carrier that enhances the sensory appeal of formulations for skin care, hair care, and color cosmetics. Readily biodegradable (OECD 301F) and with a naturality index of 0.70 (ISO 16128), it is an ideal candidate to replace volatile silicones in haircare and skincare formulations being light enough for even leave-on haircare formulations.
HARMONIE Luxe 4 powder
Harmonie Luxe 4 powder is a 100% mineral-derived, versatile sensory modifier. Thanks to its uniform, spherical structure and narrow particle size distribution, this solution delivers a soft-focus blurring effect that helps to hide skin imperfections. Suitable for both silicone and naturally derived formulations, as well as liquid and powder-based products, it reduces friction in pressed powders. It is non-microplastic and non-nanomaterial, offering an ideal replacement to synthetic ingredients like PMMA, Nylon-12, or Polymethylsilsesquioxane.
Explore our portfolio
Silkier lotions. More efficient shampoos and conditioners. Brighter, smoother, longer-lasting cosmetics. More spreadable and effective sunscreens. Formulators in the personal care industry have long looked to Momentive for silicone ingredients to help them produce new products with benefits consumers can see and feel. And we've put our eight decades of experience to good use creating a wide range of personal care solutions to do just that. Our portfolio includes film formers, conditioning agents, sensory enhancers, and emollients that enhance the performance of color cosmetics, hair care, skin care, and sun care formulations while providing an amazing sensory experience.
Silsoft™ CLX-E + emulsion
Silsoft CLX-E + emulsion is a conditioning agent designed to protect and restore damaged hair, bringing it back to a healthy, youthful state. Over time, hair can become coarse, brittle, and weak due to exposure to sunlight, pollution, chemical treatments, and excessive heat. Silsoft CLX-E emulsion helps shield hair from these damaging factors and repairs it by forming a durable, crosslinked network on the hair fibers. This results in improved manageability, a soft and radiant appearance, and protection against split ends, all without weighing down the hair or leaving residue.
Silsoft™ AX-E PMF emulsion
Silsoft AX-E PMF emulsion was designed to protect hair fibers, especially during daily styling practices that can damage the cuticle. This ingredient forms a protective barrier on damp hair, imparting a smooth and shiny finish. It helps create straight, sleek looks by forming a cuticle-protection layer that offers excellent conditioning and manageability. Silsoft AX-E PMF emulsion is the ideal choice for formulations aimed at maintaining healthy, vibrant hair despite the rigors of heat styling.
SilForm Stay resin
SilForm Stay resin is the perfect candidate to formulate products with real staying power and less transfer. Whether it’s solid or liquid lip color, mascara, eye shadow, foundation, body or facial care, sunscreen, or hair products like root touch-up sprays, incorporating SilForm Stay resin into your formulation can help consumers achieve looks that last all day.