SEPAWA® CONGRESS 2022 

Speaker: Estelle Illous

Company: BASF Personal Care and Nutrition

Title: The SFA Product Range: Innovative, Sustainable, High Performing Surfactants for Hair & Oral Care Products

Abstract: The SFA product range delivers our innovative Disodium 2-Sulfolaurate - a sustainable, naturally derived, and high performing anionic surfactant - in a variety of different products: Texapon® SFA (which is the Disodium 2-Sulfolaurate in paste form), Texapon® SFA UP Powder (the dried unpreserved Texapon® SFA in powder format), Dehyton® SFA (a liquid blend of Disodium 2-Sulfolaurate and CAPB) and Plantapon® SFA (a natural liquid blend made of Disodium 2-Sulfolaurate and APG). Launched recently, this family of products has already proven that it meets perfectly the most important consumer needs, such as a high eco profile, an outstanding mildness and an excellent foaming performance as well as a unique sensory. We performed new tests demonstrating that the SFA product range is perfectly suitable to design high performing natural hair care products, especially sulfate-alternative shampoos for treated hair. They can be formulated as liquids with a wide range of viscosity, from pumpable foaming products to viscous shampoos, but also as solid bars. We also highlight with new results that this product range is a good alternative to commonly used surfactants to formulate sustainable and mild oral care products such as toothpastes. Based on comprehensive experimental data we developed and optimized a predictive model to facilitate the formulation of ternary systems based on SFA, CAPB and APG. This enables to design efficiently new sustainable transparent liquid rinse-off products meeting important requirements such as foam and viscosity performance, as well as naturality.