Arlasilk™ EFA
INCI name
Linoleamidopropyl PG-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate (and) Propylene Glycol (and) Water

Product details
Physical form at 25°C
- Liquid
Chemistry
- Quaternary ammonium compound
Functions
- Counter irritants
- Foaming and foam control agents
- Skin conditioning
- Emulsifiers
- Surfactants / detergents
Regional availability
- Asia
- Europe
- Latin America
- N America
Applications
- Bath, shower & soaps
- Body care
- Eye contour care
- Face / neck skin care
- Face colour
- Facial cleansers
- Hair colour
- Hair conditioners - rinse off
- Shampoos
- Shaving / hair removal
- Styling
Consumer benefit
- Detangling
- Sensitive skin
Certifications and standards
- IECIC
Formulations
All Over Clean Hair and Body Wash with ARLASILK EFA
Simplify your shower shelf with this All Over Clean Hair and Body Wash. ARLASILK EFA leaves hair feeling silky and easy to comb. INCROQUAT QLC treats skin gently, leaving it noticeably moisturized and smooth. CROMOLLIENT SCE provides conditioning to the hair and body along with mitigating irritation from surfactants.
DEA Free Hair & Body Wash
This all-over hair and body cleanser offers up oodles of voluptuous foam to cleanse every nook and cranny. ARLASILK™ EFA ensures that when the suds rinse away, only soft, silky skin is left behind. PROMIDIUM™ 2 is a great foam booster, and also helps solubilize the fragrance so that you step out of the shower smelling delightful.
Head to Toe, Hair & Body Wash & Go
An all-in-one hair and body cleanser. ARLASILK EFA enhances hair and skin feel and hair combability. PROMIDIUM CO boosts lather, enhances fragrance solubility, contributes to feel and increase viscosity and shear-thinning flow.
Label Free Sulfate Cleanser (APG/SCI)
This label free sulfate cleanser is based upon alkylpolyglucosides and anionic (isethionate) systems, providing foam and gentle cleansing. PROMIDIUM LTS is utilized to thicken the formulation and to provide superior rheology. The phospholipids provide excellent conditioning, leaving hair and skin with a good feel.
Non-aerosol Finishing Spray
A light, holding spray that provides a conditioning sheen through the use of ARLASILK EFA.
Revitalize Your Tresses Conditioner
This high moisturizing formulation helps to minimize or alleviate dry skin conditions while leaving a smooth non-greasy feel. SENSASIL PCA leaves hair silky when dry. ARLASILK EFA enhances combability and feel.
Sea Salt Shampoo & Scalp Scrub
This novel shampoo has a rich and creamy texture that cleanses while coarse sea salt granules help to gently exfoliate the scalp. PROMIDIUM LTS provides efficietn thickening and shear thining properties ensuring a delightful sesorial experience. ARLASILK EFA provides great conditioning while HYDROTRITICUM WAA restores amino acids in the hair fiber.
Silicone-Free Conditioning Shampoo
Although silicone free shampoos can be desirable, it is often difficult to achieve the desired conditioning performance without the use of silicones. This formulation delivers excellent conditioning results and performs comparably to a premium silicone-free shampoo commercial benchmark. Arlasilk™ EFA enhances conditioning performance, reducing hair static without affecting lather. Exceptionally mild, Cromollient™ SCE improves wet conditioning and mitigates surfactant irritation. Versathix™ provides outstanding thickening efficiency and superior shear thining behavior, enabling desirable formulation rheology.
Silky Hair Shampoo
This shampoo with Arlasik™ EFA, is aimed to provide a silky sensory to the hair and a conditioning effect, while providing a mildness due to the smooth viscosity builder Crothix™ Liquid
Shine Shield Shampoo
This conditioning shampoo makes hair soft & shiny while cleansing the hair. Crodamol™ BOSS replenishes hair shine lost during shampoo treatment. Arlasilk™ EFA enhances wet combability, reduces hair static without affecting lather. Incromine™ SD provides excellent detangling benefits, improves dry combing, controls fly-away & also acts as a viscosity builder. Crothix™ is an effective thickener, producing substantial viscosity even at low levels.
Super Concentrated Jello Shampoo
Bath time is play time, especially with this fun, jello textured shampoo. This novel scoopable format is achieved by using Versathix™ which is exceptionally shear thinning. The addition of surfactant compatible ester, Cromollient™ SCE, increases the mildness of the system so it is suitable for children of all ages. Hair is well conditioned by Arlasilk™ EFA which enhances wet combability.
Hair Fix Cara
This hair setting gel is best applied onto flyaway hairs with a mini-comb brush. VisCaress HPD is a cationic liquid LDP which gives substantive conditioning to hair resulting in a soft afterfeel. Mirustyle MFP PE provides outstanding style holding benefits, excellent anti-frizz properties and has been proven to reduce static flyaway.
Honey Scoopable Shampoo
Make your morning routine a little more fun with this jelly shampoo! The combination of Promidium™ CO and Versathix™ efficiently builds viscosity to provide the extreme thickness and unique texture in this formulation. Arlasilk™ PLN conditions the hair with a light, silky feel and ensures long-lasting colour retention. Crodarom™ Honey is moisturising, revitalising, and provides anti-bacterial effects to this shampoo.
Honey Memory Facial Cleansing Jello
This novel self-leveling Honey Memory Facial Cleansing Jello is achieved by using Versathix™ which is exceptionally shear thinning. The addition of surfactant compatible ester, Cromollient™ SCE, increases the mildness of the system so it is suitable for children of all ages.
Pearlescent Conditioning Shampoo
Using Arlasilk™ EFA this formula provides excellent sensorial and combability properties while Lustreplex™ offers to the hair a higher shine and reduces frizz effect. Crodafos™ HCE improves the deposition of this conditioning agents acting as a conditioning booster.
Clear Biomimetic Conditioning Shampoo
This shampoo contains Cutissential 18-MEA 40 that can replenish 18-methyl eicosanoic acid (18-MEA), the natural lipid found on the hair surface. The phospholipid complex of Arlasik EFA, mimicking the natural structure of body’s cell, provides excellent substantivity and effective conditioning. Both Cutissential18-MEA 40 and Arlasilk EFA works in ‘biomimetic’ fashion and are suitable for clear and cold-process shampoo formulation. In addition, an optimised blend of high molecular weight ester and modified vegetable triglycerides, Crothix Liquid, not only thickens the formula but can also contribute to the conditioned after feel.
Soft & Shine Leave-on Conditioner
The phospholipid complex of Arlasik EFA, mimicking the natural structure of body’s cell, provides excellent substantivity and effective conditioning. Lustreplex reduces frizz effect without build-up, and together with Crodamol STS, confers glossing benefits in hair. Viscaress HPD is a cationic rheology modifier which offers high spreadability and substantive conditioning to hair resulting in a soft afterfeel.
Clear Conditioning Volumising Shampoo
KeraDyn HH is designed to provide a lubricating effect on the surface of the hair and an effective agent to reduce inter-fibre friction between hair and fabric. The combination of Glycerox 767 and Crovol A70 is the most effective solubiliser system for KeraDyn HH in a clear formulation. In addition, Arlasik EFA gives a silky sensory feel to the hair and Crothix Liquid thickens the formula, and also contributes in the conditioned after feel.
Conditioned Hair Fibers Shampoo
This shampoo contains Crodafos HCE which is a phosphate-ester that is able to deliver actives to the hair, with this technology, Crodafos HCE is able to enhance conditioning of the hair fibres. It also has Arlasilk EFA that provides a broad range of functional properties, which include gentle cleansing, anti-irritation effects, exceptionally high substantivity, long-lasting conditioning, and excellent mildness to skin and eyes.
Baby Bubble Conditioning Shampoo
This formula offers the perfect combination between conditioning and mild cleansing, due to its sulfate-free system that includes Crodateric™ CAS 50, Incromine™ Oxide C and Crodasinic™ LS30 that provides mild cleansing with creamier and richer foam. Arlasilk™ EFA provides hair smoothness and excellent combing properties. Cromollient™ SCE reduces irritation while Crodarom™ Olive EC protects and calms baby skin for an ultimate baby care. Finally, with the use of Versathix™ this formulation is effectively thicken to achieve a light honey texture.
Invigorating Shampoo
This shampoo contains Crodafos HCE which is a phosphate-ester that can deliver actives to the hair, with this technology, Crodafos HCE is able to assist in enhancing hair colour and enhancing conditioning of the hair fibers. It also has Lustreplex an anti-frizz and conditioning active and Arlasilk EFA which provides a broad range of functional properties which include gentle cleansing, anti-irritation effects, exceptionally high substantivity, long-lasting conditioning, emulsification attributes and excellent mildness to skin and eyes.
Clear Conditioning Sulphate Free Shampoo
This clear sulphate free shampoo is an excellent value for money option. Crodasinic™ LS30 provides mild but effective cleansing and improves foam quality and quantity. Arlasilk™ EFA provides substantivity and effective conditioning as well as mildness and non-greasy emolliency while Crodafos™ HCE has an improved delivery of cationic polymers and excellent overall conditioning and detangling benefits. Cutissential™ 18-MEA-40 replenishes hair fiber for a smooth and healthy hair look. Finally, Versahix™ easily thickens sulphate-free systems with a light honey texture and good stability.
Clear Anti-hair Fall Shampoo
This clear shampoo with Procapil ™ is perfect to gently cleanse hair while strengthening it to avoid hair loss in the long run. Cutissential ™18-MEA 40 can replenish 18-methyl eicosanoic acid (18-MEA), the natural lipid found on the hair surface and the phospholipid complex of Arlasik™ EFA can provide excellent substantivity and effective conditioning. Phytessence™ Pink Pomelo, Phytessence™ White Peony, Phytessence™ French Oak and Crodarom™ Black Pearl are all beneficial extracts for the hair.
Smooth & Silky Clear Sulphate Free Shampoo
This cost-effective clear sulphate free shampoo is an excellent value for money option. Crodasinic™ LS30 provides mild but effective cleansing and improves foam quality and quantity. Arlasilk™ EFA provides substantivity and effective conditioning as well as mildness and non-greasy emollience while Cromollient™ SCE helps to reduce the irritability caused by surfactants whilst offers a silky and smooth feeling. Finally, Versathix™ easily thickens sulphate-free systems with a light honey texture and good stability.
Clear Cost-Effective Conditioning Shampoo
This clear conditioning shampoo is an excellent value for money option for those looking for a conventional detergent system. For an outstanding conditioning, this formula uses Arlasilk™ EFA which provides substantivity and effective conditioning as well as excellent wet combing and detangling while Crodafos™ HCE has an improved delivery of cationic polymers and excellent overall conditioning and detangling benefits.
Pearly Glow Conditioning Shampoo
This cost-effective pearlescent conditioning shampoo is an excellent value for money option for those looking for a conventional detergent system. For an outstanding conditioning, this formula uses Arlasilk™ EFA which provides substantivity and effective conditioning as well as mildness and non-greasy emolliency while Crodafos™ HCE has an improved delivery of cationic polymers and excellent overall conditioning and detangling benefits. The final touch is given by Lustreplex™ which provides excellent frizz control and improves shine and detangling properties.
Sulphate-Free Honey Scoopable Shampoo
Make your morning routine a little more fun with this thick, honey like texture shampoo. The combination of Promidium™ CO and Versathix™ efficiently builds viscosity to provide the extreme thickness and unique texture in this sulphate-free formulation. Arlasilk™ PLN conditions the hair with a light, silky feel and ensures long-lasting colour retention. Crodarom™ Honey is moisturising, revitalising, and provides anti-bacterial effects to this shampoo.
Conditioning and Delicate Shampoo Bar with Apiscalp™
Shampoo in a practical bar format for use even on-the-go, providing gentle hair cleansing with good conditioning properties, leaving hair soft, smooth and moisturized. Arlasilk™ EFA is a conditioning performance enhancer with a broad range of properties such as gentle cleansing, long-lasting conditioning, excellent mildness to skin and eyes and more. Crodamol™ STS is an emollient that works as an alternative to silicone, bring shine, detangling easiness and softness to hair. Cropure™ Mango Butter offers moisturising, nourishing and emollience benefits and Phytolea™ Prickly Pear brings antibacterial, antioxidant, moisturising and smoothing properties to the table. Apiscalp™ controls and helps prevent the recurrence of scalp itching, irritation and flaking to leave hair healthy.
Sulphate Free Shampoo with Apiscalp
This clear sulphate free shampoo is an excellent value for money option with great benefits. Crodasinic™ LS30 provides mild but effective cleansing. Arlasilk™ EFA provides substantivity and effective conditioning as well as mildness and non-greasy emolliency while Lustreplex™ offers excellent frizz control properties and improves shine, detangling and combing. Promidium™ CO helps to improve smoothness and facilitates oily components incorporation. With the addition of Apiscalp™ we offer comfort to both oily and dry scalp while we fight against dandruff and dryness improving moisturizing and calming properties. Finally, Versahix™ easily thickens sulphate-free systems with a light honey texture and good stability.
Mango Souffle Shampoo
This Mango Souffle Shampoo is a basic formulation which is composed of a few key ingredients. Synperonic™ PE/F 68 is used as a structure agent in this formulation to provide souffle texture in combination with PEG-20M. Crodafos™ HCE is used as an effective phosphate ester to provide enhance coacervation with Polyquaternium-10. Cropure™ Mango Butter is used as an emollient rich in natural fatty acids to repair lipids for hair and offer lubricity. Crodazosoft™ SCQ is used as a conditioning agent in this formulation to provide smoothness with Polyquaternium-10 while rinsing with tap water.
Unbaked Souffle Shampoo
This Unbaked Souffle Shampoo is composed of a few key ingredients. Hairspa™ is an active ingredient that rebalances the scalp’s microbiota to fight against scalp discomfort while providing long-lasting moisturization. Crodateric™ CAS-50 and Sodium Laureth-4 Carboxylate are used to wash the hair with mildness. These combination creates souffle like texture by intermolecular interaction. Adinol™ CT95 and Crodateric™ CAS-50 are detergent to provide foaming property with mildness. Crodabond™ CSA is conditioning agent, providing soft and smooth feel to hair. Crodamol™ OSU is used as an emollient providing smooth and reducing tackiness of Crodabond CSA. Crodamol OSU is a good solvent to reducing tackiness of Crodabond CSA.
Nourishing Hair Block
This shampoo created in a practical block format provides gentle cleansing and effective conditioning, leaving hair soft, smooth and moisturised. The little raised bumps on this innovative brick gently massage the scalp to decrease stress and boost mood, leaving a skip in your step! Crodex™ M is a mild, scalp-friendly emulsifying wax that forms the foundation of this formulation whilst Crodarom’s Phytolea™ Prickly Pear offers anti-oxidant, moisturising and smoothing properties. The inclusion of Sederma’s award-winning Apiscalp™, a COSMOS-approved active ingredients fights against dandruff, itching and dryness to leave the scalp and hair healthy. Travel-friendly, this cute little block is perfect for helping in the quest to save the planet and for beauty on-the-go!
Essential Balance Gentle Detox Shampoo
Deeply cleanse and rebalance the hair from scalp to tip with this low-foam shampoo. Excess oil and impurities are gently swept away by the gentle cleansing action of Crodasinic LS30 and Crodateric CAB 30, with the addition of Nutrinvent Balance helping to keep scalp oiliness at bay. Phytessence French Oak works to protect hair from oxidative stress by reducing the harmful effects that can lead to hair-aging.
Essential Balance Comforting Scalp Foam
Instantly refresh and revitalize your hair and scalp with this gentle, no-rinse foam. Thanks to Crodasinic LS30, this foam provides outstanding lathering and offers a pure moment of wellness. Crodarom Green Coffee works in synergy with Nutrinvent Balance to keep hair looking clean, fresh, and energised.
Total Control Pre-Shampoo
Treat your scalp and hair with this Pre-shampoo. Nanomelaleuca™ is an encapsulated melaleuca oil, with greater capacity to penetrate the scalp, reducing oiliness and dandruff. Fruitbio™ is a combination of green tea extract with fruit acids that promote a "peeling" in the hair fiber and help control frizz. Arlasilk™ EFA is a conditioning performance enhancer with a broad range of properties such as gentle cleansing, long-lasting conditioning, excellent mildness to skin and eyes and more. Apiscalp™ controls and helps prevent the recurrence of scalp itching, irritation and flaking to leave hair healthy. How to use: Apply to the scalp and hair 20 minutes before bathing. Massage and rinse off.
Essential Balance Scalp Foam
Instantly refresh and revitalize your hair and scalp with this gentle, no-rinse foam. Thanks to Adinol CT-24, this foam provides excellent detergency, wetting and foaming and offers a pure moment of wellness. Crodarom® Green Coffee works in synergy with Nutrinvent Balance to keep hair looking clean, fresh, and energised. Procapil is a hair anchoring peptide complex which fights aging of the hair follicle and improves quality and density of new hair growth.
Aloe Vera Nourishing Scoopable Shampoo
Add excitement to your hair care routine with our Aloe Vera Nourishing Scoopable Shampoo! This shampoo transforms from a playful, honey-like texture, created by Versathix™, into a creamy lather upon contact with water, all while giving your hair the nourishment it craves. This shampoo will leave your scalp feeling refreshed with the combination of Crodateric™ CAB 30 and Crodasinic™ LS30, and simultaneously leave your hair feeling conditioned by Arlasilk™ EFA and Crovol™ A70 resulting in a light, silky after-feel. Cosme-Phytami® Aloe Gel, an aloe vera plant extract obtained through an exclusive, eco-responsible zeodoration drying technique, provides moisturizing and regenerative properties in this sulfate-free shampoo to leave your hair hydrated and healthy.