The Personal Care Group of AkzoNobel is a commercialization partner for leading consumer personal care companies around the globe. We are more than beakers, test tubes and laboratories - we are the science behind beauty. We are an innovation-driven organization that helps create solutions for beautiful, healthy hair and skin.
Partnering with some of the world's leading consumer products companies, AkzoNobel combines industry leading technology platforms based on bio and synthetic polymers and surfactants with broad ranging services to deliver solutions across a spectrum of the product commercialization process.
Because of the broad applicability of polymer and surfactant technology, AkzoNobel Personal Care serves virtually the entire range of market segments within the personal care industry. We have a technology and service capability development focus on three major segments within personal care: hair care, skin care and sun care.
AkzoNobel offers leading polymer technology for hair styling applications, primarily through our film formers. Our products have been at the forefront in this segment for nearly 40 years. Today, we have technology and service support for the development of a broad range of hair styling products. Our ingredients are also featured in a range of non-styling hair care products, with an emphasis on cleansing and conditioning.
Hair styling applications
AkzoNobel has a long history in the skin care segment, particularly in the areas of film formation, aesthetic modification and rheology technology, and cleansing. In recent years, AkzoNobel has enhanced both our ingredient portfolio and our technical service and formulation capabilities for skin care. New ingredients include technology for moisturization and long-lasting performance of skin care products, as well conditioning and novel delivery systems.
Skin care applications
While technically a part of our skin care activities, AkzoNobel has a great deal of technology and expertise aimed at improving the performance and consumer experience of sun care products. Our film forming technology platform has allowed us to innovate in the area of enhancing the water and rub-off resistance of sun care formulations – a critical performance area for this category. We have developed new technology for understanding and measuring this property. We have also used our technology to improve the aesthetic feel of sun care formulations.