Certain global trends have become prerequisites on the cosmetics market, and today our know-how in oleochemistry is at the forefront of a demand for green, responsible, sustainable, biodegradable products.

still, the desire for alternative ingredients comes with the same constraints as in the past: controlling costs while delivering exceptional sensory qualities and visible effects.

To meet this demand, in 2010 we initiated a comprehensive study of our esters in relation to the leading emollients on the market.

This led to a full-fledged collaborative effort (with university researchers and other experts) to gather data and process it using statistical tools (proximity matrices to identify similarities between ingredients, mapping of emollients, etc.) as well as instrumental methods (objective analyses of performance, sensoriality and textures).

Today, a cosmetics product must offer the consumer effectiveness, safety and sensory qualities. That is why Stearinerie Dubois has been pursuing this approach since 2010, developing its sensory expertise and, in 2016, forming an internal panel of sensory experts.

This expertise has enabled us to “classify” our esters and the pertinent benchmarks in the form of radar charts, to facilitate data processing and comparisons.