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ECO-Friendly Fortifying Enhancement System For Personal Care Products EPA Inert List 4A
Minimal Risk Ingredients-
Globally Approved
 
 

Enhansys™ is a new line of EPA Inert List 4A Minimal Risk Ingredients listed tailored personal care ingredients that economically fortify your formulations naturally and at the same time help you to achieve a number of challenging formulation goals.  These naturally-derived, Patent-Pending proprietary systems give you an alternative approach to protecting your formulations from manufacturing to the shelf, while at the same time enhancing formulation performance…eco-nomically.
                             
Enhansys™ is a versatile and cost effective approach for fortifying and enhancing Personal Care product formulations. Use Enhansys™ for the formulation performance functionalities of conditioning, moisturization, thickening, stabilizing and pH control, in place of traditional ingredients-and find that traditional preservatives are not needed. Enhansys™ fortified formulations are self-preserving systems that enable a high level of protection against in-package biodegradation resulting from manufacturing contamination, process water, raw materials and/or environment.  Enhansys™ systems are clear liquids that function at low concentration and are fully compatible with nonionic, anionic, and cationic surfactants, emulsifiers and proteins.

Enhansys™ ECO-4A is a cost effective fortifying system based on EPA Inert List 4A minimal risk ingredients that have been tested extensively in Food industry and to meet Personal Care regulatory standards.

- EPA Inert List 4A-Minimal Risk Inert Ingredients: Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate
- Most economical alternative system to conventional preservatives
- National Formulary and Food Chemicals Codex Ingredients
- Eco-friendly, Green Seal and Blue/Green Type Toxicology Profile
- Globally Approved
- Convenient easy to use Liquid
- Water soluble

Typical Properties
Physical form Amber Liquid
pH 8.0 – 9.5
Storage Store between 0°C(32°F) and 32°C(90°F)

Typical Use Levels/Conditions

0.6% - 2.0%

< 7, optimal pH range 3 – 6.5

 
Handling Information

Refer to the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) available from Mason Chemical Company for information on the safe use, handling and disposal of this product.


Self Preserving Properties of Enhansys ECO-4A in Different Personal Care Formulations
Formulations
Formulations Physical Stability @ RT

Initial

1 week on Shelf
2 weeks on Shelf
1 Month on Shelf
3 Months on Shelf
Color Change
Odor Change
Bio-fouling
Color Change
Odor ChangeBio-fouling

Anionic Shampoo/
No Preservative

Stable
Unstable
Unstable
Unstable
Unstable

Anionic Shampoo/
2.0% Enhansys ECO-4A

Stable
Stable
Stable
Stable
Stable
 

Cationic Conditioner/ No Preservative

Stable
Unstable
Unstable
Unstable
Unstable

Cationic Conditioner/
1.0% Enhansys ECO-4A

Stable
Stable
Stable
Stable
Stable


Anionic Shampoo and Cationic Conditioner were both contaminated with P. aeruginosa, S. aureus, E. coli,
A. niger, and C. albicans
Unstable – Means Formulation had Bio-Fouling, Spoilage, Color Change
Stable – Means Formulation had no Bio-Fouling, Spoilage or Color Change

Features
Benefits
EPA Inert List 4A Ingredients
Minimal Risk Ingredients based on EPA review, Excellent Toxicology Profile
Economical System
Most cost-effective system on the market
Eco-Friendly
Global Approval,  Green Seal and Blue/Green Type Toxicology Profile

National Formulary(NF)/Food Chemicals
Codex (FCC)

Ingredients meet or exceed specifications
Clear Amber Liquid
Ease of Use, Manufacturing Ease
Easily Water Soluble
Immediately dissolves into water
GRAS Ingredients
Consumer Appeal, Safer Alternative
Fortifying
Consumer Appeal, Safer Alternative
No Odor
Excellent for Low or No odor formulations
No Animal Testing
No Special Labeling

No Conventional Preservatives
Such as Parabens, Formaldehyde Donors, Isothiazolinones

No Special Labeling

INCI Name:
Potassium Sorbate, CAS# 24634-61-5/590-00-1, EINECS# 246-376-1
Sodium Benzoate, CAS# 532-32-1, EINECS# 208-534-8

Refer to Material Safety Data Sheet for Handling and Safety Information and Toxicology Summary.

 
       
 

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