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Crodamol™ SFX
Crodamol SFX is a patented emollient ester possessing many of the sensory benefits of cyclomethicone D5. Crodamol SFX can be used to enhance the aesthetics of a wide range of cosmetics and toiletries and acts as a solvent for several frequently used organic sun filters to offer a functional benefit in sunscreen products. In colour cosmetics its ability to disperse pigments leads to a smoother application and lighter skin feel.

INCI name

PPG-3 Benzyl Ether Ethylhexanoate

Crodamol SFX
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Product details

Physical form at 25°C

  • Liquid

Chemistry

  • Emollient esters & ethers

Functions

  • Solvents
  • Effect ingredients
  • Spreading agents

Regional availability

  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • N America

Applications

  • Antiperspirants & deodorants
  • After sun
  • Body care
  • Eye colour
  • Eye contour care
  • Face / neck skin care
  • Face colour
  • Hair conditioners - rinse off
  • Lip care
  • Lip colour
  • Shampoos
  • Styling
  • Sun protection
  • Tanning

Consumer benefit

  • Gloss / shine / vibrancy
  • Smoothing

Certifications and standards

  • Halal
  • Vegan suitable

Ingredient origin

  • Petrochemical derived

Formulations

Soothing Eye Gel

This smooth and creamy gel contains EYELISS™ and PHYTEXCELL™ CUCUMBER to sooth and reduce puffiness. VISCOPTIMA™ SE creates the unique texture and excellent skin feel, so no additional emulsifiers are necessary.

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Repair My Hair With Flair Conditioner

This rich conditioner combines Kerestore™ 2.0 with Cutissential™ 18-MEA 40 to provide targeted repair of damaged hair. Kerestore™ 2.0 contains peptide sequences that match those found within the hair and is deposited at the site of cuticle damage. Cutissential™ 18-MEA 40 replenishes the lipid layer...

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Perfect Positioning Hair Putty

A putty product with a fantastic stringy texture which provides style hold along with other benefits. MiruStyle™ MFP PE provides style hold and anti-frizz benefits. Procapil™ prevents hair loss to maintain a thick head of hair. Crotein™ MCAA penetrates the hair shaft and binds moisture in the hair....

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Cleansing Conditioner for Color Treated Hair

Women who color their hair seek ways to make the color last and to condition their hair after the damage that can result from the coloring process. This formulation combines the color retention need with the desire of busy women to save time with cleansing conditioners that can improve hair health...

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Sun Enduring Cream

CRODAFOS™ CES creates a liquid crystal emulsion that resists wash-off and gives excellent deposition of the organic filters on the skin. CROMOLLIENT™ ESP and CRODAMOL™ SFX give a double punch by helping to dissolve oxybenzone and avobenzone, thus enhancing UVA protection

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Enjoy the Sunshine Spray SPF 30

Jump out into the sun with this easy to use, non-whitening sun protection spray! VOLAREST™ FL delivers a perfect spray with its fly-stay technology while CRODAMOL™ ISIS, a highly effective emollient, helps provide optimum skin moisturization. CRODAMOL SFX creates a good sensory feel and SOLPERFORM...

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Hair Treatment Oil

This type of formulation for damaged hair. Key Ingredients : SR CRODAMOL STS : Solubilizer for Crodabond CSA. Provide shine, softening effect and smooth feel to hair CRODAMOL SFX: Provide softening and smooth feel to hair. CROLATUM LES: Sensory modifier CRODABOND CSA : Conditioning agent for...

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Professional Hair Wax with shine

Stylize your hair with this Professional Hair Wax with a great stability provided by Brij™ CS25 and Brij™ O2 and the outstanding sensorial and shine only Crodamol™ SFX and Crodamol™ IPP can give.

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Professional "Spider" Hair Wax

Stylize your hair with this Professional “Spider” Hair Wax with a great stability provided by Brij™ CS25 and Brij™ O2 and the outstanding sensorial and shine only Crodamol™ SFX and Crodamol™ IPP can give.

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Shea Repair Facial Anti-ageing Cream

An ideal combination of emulsifiers, Crodafos™ CES and ViscOptima™ SE smooth the skin while being super easy to spread! Seatons™ Shea Nut Butter melts and sinks into skin for a luxurious sensorial effect, and Matrixyl™ 3000, an innovative anti-ageing active, promotes wrinkle smoothing and improves...

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Chia Seed Pudding Hair and Scalp Mask

Indulge your hair and scalp with this rich, moisturising mask treatment. Hydrosativum P SB, a powerful moisturising active and superfood-derived biopolymer, hydrates the hair even at low humidities. DuraQuench™ IQ SA delivers effective moisturisation to the scalp that is consumer perceivable while...

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Frizz Control Conditioner

Controlling frizz can be quite a challenge, especially for consumers with curly hair. For maximum frizz control results, use the three-part Frizz Control Regimen, which includes a Frizz Control Shampoo, Frizz Control Conditioner, and Frizz Control Styling Primer. This protective Frizz Control...

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Extreme Damage Repair Balm

Extremely damaged hair requires intense repair. This damage repair balm contains a cocktail of advanced conditioning ingredients designed to intelligently repair your hair and protect it from future damage, leaving it healthy looking and feeling soft and smooth. A proven softening effect that...

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Youth Renewing Cleansing Conditioner

Has your hair changed over the years? The ageing process can result in unwanted changes to the hair, such as increased dryness, brittleness, coarseness in texture, dullness and thinning, more fragile hair. Restore your hair with this mild, youth renewing cleansing conditioner. Crodazosoft™ DBQ has...

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Perfect Shine and Straight Combing Cream

Move your hair with Perfect Straight Combing Cream, made with Incroquat™ Behenyl TMS-50 to provide exceptional conditioning and detangling effect, an impressive movement with Keradyn™ HH and Crodamol™ SFX to give an outstanding shine.

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Hair Styling Pomade

This hair styling pomade provides the hair with a great style retention due to MiruStyle™ MFP, which also reduces frizz and static flyaway. Also contains Crodamol™ SFX, that has a high refractive index, so it delivers gloss to the hair.

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Eye Mascara

This perfect eye mascara contains CrodafosTM CES to improve wash-off resistance, WIDELASH™ to help eyelashes appear longer, fuller and stronger and MiruStyle CP to deliver perfect curls to the eyelashes. Finally, Crodamol™ SFX is used to help in the dispersion of the pigment.

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Body Butter

This easy to formulate body butter uses ViscOptima SE that is a highly efficient thickener and leaves a smooth, silky feel to the skin and Crodamol ISIS, which is a 100% naturally derived ingredient that works in synergy with the stratum corneum lipid lamellae, improving its performance for optimum...

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Facial Cream SPF30

Developed with a mixture of Crodamol™ range emollients to provide your skin with a silky feel, this Facial Cream SPF30 also contains Solaveil™ CT-300 to provide the shield you need to protect your skin from sun damage, besides the innovative texture and stability provided by Versaflex™ V-150.

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Emulsifiable Oil

This easy-to-formulate cold process anhydrous emulsifiable oil turns into a very soft cream when applied onto wet skin. CrodamolTM SSA delivers a soft, velvety skin feel and is easily absorbed leaving no greasy afterfeel while CrodamolTM SFX is a readily biodegradable ingredient that provides a...

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Opulent Oil Cleanser

Designed to be massaged into the skin before removing with a cotton wipe, purify your skin with this opulent oil cleanser. The presence of the emollient ester Crodamol™ SFX leaves the skin feeling polished and smooth whilst Arlasense™ V5 offers a high degree of skin spreading that creates an...

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Wash Your Troubles Away Gelled Cleansing Oil

Wash your troubles away with this light skin cleansing oil suitable for daily use. Crodamol™ IPIS easily removes impurities including waterproof make-up, whilst Crodamol™ SFX imparts a silky smooth skin feel. The inclusion of the mild and gentle emulsifier Cithrol™ 10GTIS ensures this formulation...

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Hair Unidose: Sleek and Smooth Hair

VisCaress™ HPD and Versaflex™ V150 enable this formulation to have an entirely cold process manufacturing method. The Lustreplex™ and Crodamol™ SFX provide shine and smoothness. MiruStyle™ MFP reduces frizz and static flyaway, to maintain a natural look and feel to the hair.

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Gel-Oil-Milk Transformative Cleanser

This transformative cleanser changes from; a clear gel when first applied, to a silky oil when smoothed onto the face then to a milk when water is applied. The inclusion of the kind-to-skin emulsifier, Cithrol™ 10GTIS, ensures oils and impurities are immediately emulsified upon contact with water,...

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In shower body Oil

Cleasing Gel is a light skin cleansing oil. Crodamol™ IPIS easily removes impurities including waterproof make-up, whilst Crodamol SFX imparts a silky-smooth skin feel. The inclusion of the mild and gentle emulsifier Cithrol™ 10GTIS ensures this formulation emulsifies immediately upon contact with...

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Shape and Play Cleansing Sand

This bright, playful cleansing sand will appeal to kids and adults of all ages. For use on the face or body, this sandy formula includes ViscOptima™ SE to ensure a stable formulation which can be shaped and moulded as you please. On addition of water, the sand which has a mild exfoliating action,...

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Break Clean Make-Up Remover

See and feel the difference of this silky-smooth make-up remover with Crodamol™ SFX. This Incroquat™ TMS-50 emulsion formula, is free of propylene glycol and breaks clean of make-up effectively, in as little as 30 seconds! Crodamol SFX’s unique chemistry gives it the power to easily solubilize hard...

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Restoring Cleansing Sand

Detox and reenergize your skin after a full digital day! For use on the face or body, this sandy formula can be shaped and moulded as you please and has a mild exfoliating action. Upon water addition, it melts into a milky lotion to gently cleanse the skin and leave a soft smooth feel. It contains...

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Broad Sprectrum Daily Sun Stick SPF 50

Feel free to enjoy the sun with this practical, on the go formulation, which promotes a light-weight and non-tacky feel suitable for daily application. The Syncrowax line is used to provide rigidity to the formulation. Solaveil XT 100 is a broad spectrum inorganic filter which contributes with UVB,...

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Transparent Sun Stick SPF 50

Wow your customers with this clear stick format, a beautiful, handy and easy to use formulation. The combination of emollients as Crodamol STS, Crodamol SFX and Liquiwax PolyIPL gives a very light and smooth sensory. The Oleocraft line is responsible for structure and give the clear appearance to...

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Protein Leave-In Conditioner

This leave-in conditioner will leave your hair feeling strong and moisturized. The Crodazosoft™ DBQ and Incroquat™ Behenyl TMS-50 provide deep conditioning and softening benefits, while also lubricating the cuticle, protecting hair from damage caused by combing. Keravis™ NSP ET, our hair...

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Perfect Positioning Hair Putty

A putty product with a fantastic stringy texture which provides style hold along with other benefits. MiruStyle™ MFP PE provides style hold and anti-frizz benefits. Procapil™ prevents hair loss to maintain a thick head of hair.The unique texture is created by Crodafos™ CS20A, Crodacol CS90,...

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Nocturnal Hair Rescue Pack

Providing the intensive nourishment to the hair overnight, the silicon-free Nocturnal Hair Rescue Pack plays a key role in restoring your damage hair to shiny healthy hair.

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Scoopable Hair Souffle

This conditioning hair soufflé contains Hydrosativum™ P SB to lavish the hair and scalp with moisture whilst Crodasone™ P offers rinse-off cuticle protection from styling practices such as blow-drying. The luxurious scoopable soufflé texture is provided by Incroquat™ TMS-50 which delivers the...

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Beauty sleep overnight hair & scalp masque

This overnight mask is the ultimate treat for your hair and scalp! Packed with ingredients that bring softness, conditioning, hydration, and shine, you’ll be sure to wake up with hair that turns heads! Croda’s Crodazosoft™ DBQ, VisCaress™ PC and Hydroavena™ HpO work together to bring optimal...

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