Fanwen Zeng*, Inna Shulman, David Lu, Ligeng Yin, Lu Bai, Tian Lan, Michaeleen Pacholski, Jen Koenig, Meng Jing, Cathy Jackson, Peilin Yang, Matt Carter The Dow Chemical Company, 400 Arcola Rd., Collegeville, PA 19426 There is a growing trend to provide personal care products with better sustainability profiles. Among them, novel polymeric raw materials are highly sought after if they can either biodegrade or be made from bio-derived raw materials. For the latter case, there are a few existing standards, e.g. COSMOS (COSMetic Organic Standard) or NATRUE or ISO-16128 to define the natural content for personal care applications. Among them, ISO-16128 can be the best fit for bio-derived synthetic polymers. This standard comprises guidelines on definitions for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and offers a framework to determine the natural content of ingredients as well as formulations. The key to pass this standard is that the renewable bio-carbon content (BCC) needs to be &gt;50%. In this paper, we investigate the emulsion polymer syntheses from a selection of bio-derived monomers and their potential applications for the personal care industry while still meeting the ISO-16128 standard.

Novel acrylic emulsion polymers with high bio-carbon content for personal care applications

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