Winner of the In-Cosmetics Global 2023 Innovation Zone gold award, AURIST™ AGC is a readily biodegradable hair and skin conditioning biopolymer that will revolutionize the beauty and personal care landscape. Developed using IFF’s proprietary Designed Enzymatic Biopolymers (DEB) technology, AURIST™ AGC is a new-to-the-world polysaccharide derived from the enzymatic polymerization of glucose from responsibly sourced natural sugars.
Winner of the In-Cosmetics Global 2023 Innovation Zone gold award, AURIST™ AGC is a readily biodegradable hair and skin conditioning biopolymer that will revolutionize the beauty and personal care landscape. Developed using IFF’s proprietary Designed Enzymatic Biopolymers (DEB) technology, AURIST™ AGC is a new-to-the-world polysaccharide derived from the enzymatic polymerization of glucose from responsibly sourced natural sugars.
AURIST™ AGC can improve consumer experience in hair care and body wash applications.
Easy to Formulate With
Compatible with a wide range of commonly used personal care ingredients, AURIST™ AGC does not require pH neutralisation. It is supplied in the format of an odourless liquid that is easy to pour, cold processable, with no premix required.
Readily Biodegradable
Designed to be readily biodegradable to meet increased consumer and regulatory pressure to replace certain synthetic polymers.
Hair care
Significantly improves wet and dry combability compared with incumbent technology
Body wash
Reduces skin roughness feel in skin cleansing and body wash applications
Improves rinsability
INCI: Water (and) Alpha-Glucan Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride (and) Propylene Glycol
Appearance: Amber liquid
Recommended use: 0.6 - 3%
Origin: Biofermentation based on sucrose
Unlike petroleum-based synthetic polymers, the DEB process allows us to access unique, structurally-diverse polysaccharides at scale and under mild process conditions. Using only plant-based sugars, water, and our favorite biocatalyst—the enzyme—we can now design functional, biobased, biodegradable materials without compromising performance.
Highly Customizable
The enzymatic process enables tailored polymer properties, which can then be further modified with a variety of functional groups– expanding the material design space to be even more flexible.
Structural Uniformity
The precisely controlled enzymatic process ensures excellent structural uniformity for the DEB materials. This offers high reproducibility and little batch-to-batch variation.
Designed for Biodegradability
Biodegradability is intrinsic to polysaccharide materials. Tailoring the molecular structure allows DEB to meet or exceed required product performance while still meeting biodegradability requirements across application areas.
DEB is a biocatalysis process to enable creation of tailored polysaccharides from the enzymatic polymerization of glucose from sucrose with controlled morphology and structure.
Consumers’ demand for formulations using renewable ingredients has been steadily increasing in recent years, prompting more investigations into the use of biopolymers.
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