Haircare
- Helps improve wet and dry combability for easier hair management.
- Helps enhance de-tangling for improved hair fluffiness.
- Helps reduce cuticle damage for glossier hair finish.
Hair & Bodywash
Conditioning Biopolymer
AURIST™ AGC is a multi-award winning, readily biodegradable hair and skin conditioning biopolymer that is set to revolutionize the beauty and personal care landscape. Winner of the In-Cosmetics Global 2023 Innovation Zone Award and other industry accolades, AURIST™ AGC is developed using IFF’s proprietary Designed Enzymatic Biopolymers (DEB) technology.
AURIST™ AGC is a multi-award winning, readily biodegradable hair and skin conditioning biopolymer that is set to revolutionize the beauty and personal care landscape. Winner of the In-Cosmetics Global 2023 Innovation Zone Award and other industry accolades, AURIST™ AGC is developed using IFF’s proprietary Designed Enzymatic Biopolymers (DEB) technology.
Novel, readily biodegradable hair and skin conditioning polymer
AURIST™ AGC conditioning polymer can improve consumer experience in hair care and body wash applications.
Body wash
- Helps improve skin conditioning (reduced skin roughness) for smoother skin.
- Helps improve rinsability in personal wash formulations.
Easy to Formulate With
Compatible with a wide range of commonly used personal care ingredients, AURIST™ AGC does not require pH neutralisation. It is supplied in the format of an odourless liquid that is easy to pour, cold processable, with no premix required.
Featured Formulations
Quartz Clear Conditioner
Achieve clarity in this hair conditioner with conditioning biopolymer AURIST™ AGC. This water-based, silicone-free and transparent hair conditioner is formulated with a high content of natural origin ingredients to effectively detangle your locks.
Sorbet Body Lotion
This in-shower body lotion strikes a fine balance between sensory, performance and stability due to the addition of conditioning biopolymer AURIST™ AGC which does not increase viscosity. Also contains moisturizing osmolyte GENENCARE® OSMS BA for moisturized and soft skin immediately as you step out of the shower.
Nectar Body Wash
This nectar body wash with a honey-like texture is a formulation rich in actives for gentle cleansing and extra hydration.Conditioning biopolymer AURIST™ AGC helps ensure that skin is soft and hydrated before leaving the shower. It also contains GENENCARE® OSMS BA for moisture retention as well as GENENCARE® XL to help support the skin’s microbiome environment.
Technical Datasheet
INCI: Water (and) Alpha-Glucan Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride (and) Propylene Glycol
Appearance: Amber liquid
Recommended use: 0.6 - 3%
Origin: Biofermentation based on sucrose
How We're Breaking the Trade-off Between Performance and Sustainability:
Unlike petroleum-based synthetic polymers, the DEB process allows us to access unique, structurally-diverse polysaccharides at scale and under mild process conditions. Using only plant-based sugars, water, and our favorite biocatalyst—the enzyme—we can now design functional, biobased, biodegradable materials without compromising performance.
Highly Customizable
The enzymatic process enables tailored polymer properties, which can then be further modified with a variety of functional groups– expanding the material design space to be even more flexible.
Structural Uniformity
The precisely controlled enzymatic process ensures excellent structural uniformity for the DEB materials. This offers high reproducibility and little batch-to-batch variation.
Designed for Biodegradability
Biodegradability is intrinsic to polysaccharide materials. Tailoring the molecular structure allows DEB to meet or exceed required product performance while still meeting biodegradability requirements across application areas.
How DEB works
DEB is a biocatalysis process to enable creation of tailored polysaccharides from the enzymatic polymerization of glucose from sucrose with controlled morphology and structure.
Eco-designed
Setting a new standard for sustainable innovation
Natural Origin
Based on ISO 16 128, AURIST™ AGC has an NOI index of 97,85%.
Readily biodegradable
AURIST™ AGC is designed to be readily biodegradable to meet increased consumer and regulatory pressure to replace certain synthetic polymers.
ARTICLE
Peeling Back the ‘Biodegradable’ Label
There are many misconceptions around biodegradability. In this Cosmetics & Toiletries peer-reviewed article, IFF's Lead Toxicologist Jared Bozich explains the terminology behind the term "biodegradable".
AURIST™ AGC
Sample Request Form
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