Suga®Citrate L1C is the newest generation natural surfactant, meeting all the demands of today’s consumer. It is an extremely low-irritation anionic surfactant derived entirely from renewable plant sources. SugaCitrate L1C functionalized alkyl polyglucosides deliver many highly desirable product features. Luxurious cleansers with excellent foam, rich viscosity, and low irritation are easily achievable.

What is a naturally derived surfactant?

In the surfactant family, we have solubilizers, emulsifiers, dispersants or foaming agents. In all cases, they allow reducing of the energy required to create a surface between two materials having the same state or not (liquid, gas, solid). It is a molecule with hydrophilic and lipophilic parts which help dissolve poorly soluble substances in a solvent like fragrance or essential oil in a water-based formulation as a solubilizer or allow to disperse and stabilize drop of liquid in other non-miscible liquid like an emulsifier. We offer two kinds of bio-based surfactants: Naturally-derived surfactant is composed of hydrophilic part derived from sugar (corn or beet) like EcoSenseTM series (AlkylPolyGlucoside), Poly Suga®Mulse D9, amino acids like glutamate, glucose and sulfonates like Poly Suga®Nate 160P NC or combination of choline, phosphate, and glycerol like lecithin and Emultop™ Velvet IP and lipophilic part generally derived from fatty acid of vegetable oil. They are obtained by chemical reaction or extraction.

Biosurfactants like EcoSenseTM GL-60 series (Sophorolipid) are obtained by bio-fermentation involving bacteria, yeasts, and filamentous fungi. They transform basic substrates like sugar, a fatty acid into complex raw materials thanks to their metabolism.