Xanthan gum as cosmetic ingredient

Xanthan gum is used in cosmetic products as it has the capability to hold water, help keep different ingredients from separating, enhancing freeze-thaw stability, inhibiting starch retro-gradation, improves shelf life and helps with the stabilization of a product and has some skin hydrating properties.

This ingredient is made by fermentation of corn sugar by Xanthomonas campestris. The basis of it is similar to cellulose, but the trisaccharide side chains of mannose and glucuronic acid make the molecule rigid, allowing it to form a right-handed helix.

This ingredient is a long chain polysaccharide, composed of the sugars glucose, mannose, and glucuronic acid.

One of the major advantages of xanthan gum is that it improves texture, gives a pleasant skin feel to the product, while suspending the active ingredients.

It is compatible and stable in solutions with a high salt concentration, yet is also stable in acid or alkaline solutions and is resistant to enzymatic degradation.

Side chains lie alongside, this makes it stable for use with acids and alkalis. Enzymes protect the glucan backbone.

Other ingredients used in pure natural moisturizing Olinat base cream

• Olive extract
  • An olive derived emulsifier and olive derived thickener wax
• Purified water
  • Diluent and solvent
• Panthenol (Vitamin B5)
  • Skin conditioner and moisturizing vitamin
• Tocopherol (Vitamin E)
  • Antioxidant and skin conditioning vitamin
• Cocoa butter
  • An emollient fat obtained from the seeds of the cocoa plant with amazing moisturizing properties.
• Shea butter
  • An emollient fat obtained from the fruit of the karite tree
• Almond
  • A light and moisturizing oil pressed from the kernels of sweet almond seeds
• Apricot kernel
  • A nourishing and well absorbed oil pressed from the kernels of apricots
• Grapeseed
  • A light oil pressed from grape seeds, high in antioxidants
• Jojoba
  • A highly nourishing and soothing oil – actually a wax ester – obtained from the seeds of the desert shrub Simmondsia chinensis.
• Sesame
  • A highly emollient oil from Sesamum indicum
• Preservative
  • A natural eco-certified paraben free preservative
• Glycerine
  • Humectant
• Carob
  • Moisturizer and an anti wrinkle gum extracted from the Ceratonia seliqua (carob) tree
• Rosemary / Soya
  • An extract of soya and rosemary to boost the preservative properties and to stabilize the cream
• Citric acid
  • pH regulator and weak organic preservative
• Bentonite
  • Clay thickener
• Xanthan
  • A thickening gum derived through natural process from carbohydrate fermentation
• Chicory
  • A natural emulsifier made from inulin extracted from chicory roots