PROQUIMAC FOOD & PHARMA offers to the cosmetics manufacturers a wide range of dyes adapted to the wide variety of products that conforms the cosmetics market.

To classify the products we make two groups:

■ Soluble dyes: They can be soluble in water, oils, alcohol or in some cases in other solvents. They are used in personal care products that require soluble colours as liquid soaps, shampoos, depilatory waxes, perfumes and lotions, mouth and teeth care products, sun creams and skin care and treatment creams and emulsions. We can subdivide them in other two types:

▪ Natural colours: Extracted from animal or vegetable first materials. Their use gives an additional value to the products because nowadays customers are very concerned about natural products.

▪ Synthetic colours: Organic colours obtained by chemical synthesis. They have some advantages in front of natural colours: better stability, wider range of colours and more competitive prices.

■ Pigments: Products not soluble in the media in which they are applied. They colour by dispersion. Used mainly in decorative cosmetics. PROQUIMAC FOOD & PHARMA offers also two types:

▪ Inorganic pigments: Products that having a synthetic origin in order to achieve greater purity and better price, are analogous to mineral products and consequently offer a range of colours with natural shades very appreciated in cosmetics.

▪ Organic pigments: Obtained by industrial synthesis, cover all the spectra of colours, offering more brilliant shades than inorganic pigments. PROQUIMAC FOOD & PHARMA manufactures Conalake, aluminium lakes of synthetic food colours, offering a wide range of colours and the possibility of making new developments together with the customer to obtain new shades for new products. Besides aluminium lakes, PROQUIMAC FOOD & PHARMA offers other organic pigments widely used in decorative cosmetic field.

Notes

Color charts are only a guide, final shade depends upon dosage, type of final product and manufacturing process.
All these colours are included in the Directive 76768EEC Annex IV/1 and subsequent amendments and, consequently, are allowed to be used as cosmetic colours. The products that have an E-number are allowed also as food colours.