Yanis Cai | Product Manager

Extraction of natural ingredients for cosmetics

Natural ingredients

Besides the chemical ingredients, natural ingredients like extraction oil from plants is the most on-trend topic for the cosmetic industry. Safety and as well as efficacy, natural and organic becomes the key word when consumers select a personal care product.

On the other hand, sustainability is a consensus among the world. Some regulation like “European Green Deal” expect companies to play a key role in building a sustainable economy and society. To use sustainably sourced ingredients would be also a main expectation of all supply chains in the cosmetic industry.

Extraction of Natural oils

With 3 different method: rendering, mechanical pressing and extracting with solvents, different types of vegetable oils and essential oils can be extracted.

Compared to the other two methods, extraction with solvents is more preferable for extracting essential oils from flowers like Jasmyn, rose, ylang-ylang and leaf like patchouli, Chypre etc. by distilling under low temperature after the solvent extracted the perfume from flower and leaf, the original and natural fragrance is collected.

Your best partner for distilling

The IKA rotary evaporator system is the best partner for distilling at certain low temperature.

With a digital display of rotational speed and heating temperature, the researcher is able to control the distilling process under low temperature. Thanks to high-precision temperature control technology, a control accuracy of ±1 K can be achieved.

With the high performance of the IKA VACSTAR pump, solvents can be distilled even if the heating temperature is as low as 40 °C. Meanwhile, the 1500 cm² cooling surface will help to condense all steam efficiently together with the compact but strong cooling capacity chiller RC 2 lite.