because life is changing

because life is changing

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment s ability to meet present and future needs. From the Brundtland Commission (Our Common Future) NO IMPACT IN PROGRESS BRASCA PHILOSOPHY Brasca is approaching the future through innovation and evolution. We aim to protect the value of Nature and People in product manufacturing. We care about the environmental impact of our productions by adopting eco-sustainable processes. We aim both to keep high quality standards and efficacies, and to optimize sustainability from the entire product Life Cycle perspective. Our philosophy NO IMPACT IN PROGRESS (NIP) applies to all Brasca products and technologies, and it stands as a mission for Quality, People safety and Environment preservation.

Would you fancy a high quality COSMETIC WAX? HIGH QUALITY WAX INGREDIENTS COMPATIBLE WITH A WIDE RANGE OF COSMETIC RAW MATERIALS The ABWAX line includes a wide range of waxes which can be classified into 4 main families: ACTIVE WAXES MINERAL WAXES Refined waxy ingredients have always been used in cosmetics formulation for their extraordinary wide range of behaviors and their capacity to be compatible with the majority of other components. It is well established that waxes have the property to enhance gloss, absorb oils, structure and bind, improve emolliency and hydration, be a moisture barrier, control the rheology behavior, enhance thermal stability, be emulsible and dispersible while also being safe and stable ingredients. All of these properties can be combined with waxes in order to obtain the best physical and sensorial results. NATURAL WAXES SYNTHETIC WAXES 3

and if it was a ALL OF OUR WAXES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AND PRODUCED ACCORDING TO THE SPECIFIC DEMANDS OF OUR CLIENTS FOCUSED product? Amedeo Brasca on-site quality control laboratory has allowed us to have historical constant quality and performances on our ingredients, ensuring client requirements and satisfaction. The know-how of Brasca technical and regulatory assistance is at disposal to answer all questions about waxes new applications, tailor-made combinations, functionalities and uses, and to help you find the best reference or synergy of references to achieve your objectives. ABWAX can be used in different applications: MAKE-UP (lipsticks, mascaras, eye and lip pencils) BODY CARE (emulsions, balms, pomades, cold creams, depilatory waxes) HAIR CARE (hair styling) SUN CARE (creams and emulsions) 5

ACTIWAX SUN Choose your innovative Since very old times, when Roman women used to devote much of their time to their beauty as well as to their skin and body care, sunflower has always been a precious source of vegetal nourishing components: history tells that the ancients used to hydrate their skin through creams and balms derived from oil wax and bees wax. ACTIWAX SUN is the wax fraction of sunflower seeds oil, naturally resulting from pressing the seeds. Wax is obtained by filtration of the oil at low temperature (winterization), optimizing the integrity of its components and ensuring solvent free ingredient. INCI Name: CERA ALBA, HELIANTHUS ANNUUS SEED CERA BIFUNCTIONAL ABWAX COMPOSITION Actiwax Sun is composed of hydrocarbons, sterol esters, triterpenic alcohols and linear esters. These linear esters, ranging from C44 to C66, are mainly composed of two very particular alcohols, Geranylgeraniol and Phytol, esterified with Oleic (C18:1), Arachidic (C20:0), Behenic (C22:0) and Lignoceric (C24:0) acids. Due to a special production process technology, Actiwax has an elevated 50% unsaponifiable content, with 10% of Squalene and 6% of Tocopherol fractions (90% is α-tocopherol). 7

ABWAX ACTIWAX SUN CHARACTERISTICS Discover our innovative Actiwax Sun, a highly purified fraction of Sunflower oil to be used in cosmetic formulations, rich in tocopherols and coated in squalene, a component naturally contained even in the human skin. According to our No Impact in Progress philosophy, this is a by-product coming from the food supply chain, properly processed and marketed, and not affected by the Reach regulation. Actiwax Sun protects the skin from dehydration, finding its main application in rich creams, lipsticks and body balms. Being a high performance product, only small quantities are required to prepare outstanding cosmetics. ACTIWAX SUN CONCEPT PLUS and EFFICACY TESTS Actiwax has a high melting point and a strong gelling agent behavior. In cosmetic formulations, it improves oils absorption, formulation cohesion and consistency, gloss, emolliency and film-forming. Due to an exclusive production technology, Actiwax is naturally rich in vegetable Squalene and α-tocopherol (E vitamin). This property, radically different from traditional Sunflower waxes, allows Actiwax to increase skin defenses, being active as antioxidant and anti-aging, reducing cellular degeneration and cutaneous dehydration, and improving skin elasticity. Brasca performed efficacy tests on Actiwax, such as the in vitro cell culture mtt test after oxidant stress with H 2 O 2. Actiwax counteracts the damaging effects of oxidative stress by protecting the cells from oxidative damage and increasing cell viability. PROTECTION from oxidative damage The reduction of transcutaneous water loss has been demonstrated by placebo controlled comparison tests. Actiwax definitely improves skin moisturization. Skin Hydration *, p<0,05 +12,6% Moisturized skin Dry skin Cell Viability Skin Moisturization (c.u.) Oxidative stress was induced in a keratinocytes cell culture by adding to the cell culture medium a pro-oxidant agent (2.0 mm H 2 O 2 ) after then cells were incubated with increasing concentration of Actiwax Sun. A placebo-controlled clinical study was carried out on 20 subjects with dry skin. The cream containing Actiwax Sun and a base cream were applied for 7 DAYS on the face (half face application). Skin moisturization was evaluated by means of Corneometer. 9

MICROCRYSTALLINE WAXES Microcrystalline waxes are a combination of branched and straight chain saturated hydrocarbons with carbon numbers greater than 35. They are obtained from petroleum distillation residual heavy fractions, by solvent separation, refining and hydrogenation. INCI Name: MICROCRISTALLINA CERA Cutting-edge TECHNOLOGY CONCEPT PLUS The microcrystalline waxes range offers formulators a wide choice in wax behavior. Microcrystalline waxes ingredients can be found from soft to hard, from flexible to rigid, with or without adhesiveness, glossy or not, with weak or strong oil absorption and with melting points from 60 to 100 C. They have a small crystals structure and are odorless and tasteless. In cosmetic formulations, being effective at low dosage, microcrystalline waxes modify oil retention, viscosity, cohesion, opacity, lubrication, spreading, gloss, thermal stability, emolliency and filmforming. 11

MINERAL WAXES CERESIN & OZOKERITE They are a combination of branched and straight chain saturated hydrocarbons with carbon numbers from C20 to C50. They are obtained from petroleum distillation, refining and hydrogenation. OUTSTANDING waxes INCI Name: CERESIN INCI Name: OZOKERITE CONCEPT PLUS Ozokerites and Ceresins have a small crystals structure, are odorless, tasteless and flexible. They improve oils absorption, viscosity control, cohesion, opacity, lubrication, gloss, thermal stability, emolliency and film-forming. To complete our range of MINERAL WAXES we can offer to our customers a line of PARAFFIN WAXES. They have a macro crystalline structure, are translucent, odorless, tasteless and not flexible. PARAFFIN WAXES improve oils absorption, viscosity control, lubrication, gloss, emolliency and film-forming. 13

NATURAL WAXES Choose a 100% NATURAL wax BEESWAX Beeswax has found a wide use in many cosmetic applications, thanks to its emollient, soothing and restructuring properties. Beeswax is naturally secreted by working bees, and then refined by mild processes using water and filtrations only, removing impurities and pigments, reducing odor, but keeping all the benefits of a naturally occurring, sustainable and renewable material. INCI Name: CERA ALBA - soft and flexible, with a light pleasant honey odor - emollient and film-forming capacities - controls viscosity and thermal stability - can be easily emulsified, dispersed or saponified - improves structure and consistency of cosmetics - has important restructuring properties - helps protect the skin from external agents JAPAN WAX Japan wax is obtained by squeezing the fruits of Rhus succedanea and refined using mild filtration and bleaching processes. Its melting point is between 50 and 56 C. It has a good cohesion, binding and emolliency properties, is available in white slabs form and has light fatty odor. INCI Name: RHUS SUCCEDANEA FRUIT CERA 15

NATURAL WAXES Choose a wax coming from CARNAUBA WAXES INCI Name: COPERNICA CERIFERA CERA Carnauba wax is produced from the leaves of the Carnauba palm tree in the north east of Brazil. The wax is extracted from the leaves of the tree and then refined using water and filtration processes, being a perfect example of sustainable use of Natural resources. The Organic Certification ensures that the certified product is free of any chemical contamination, and that the production process respects and maintains the integrity and quality of the natural environment. CANDELILLA WAXES INCI Name: CANDELILLA CERA The Candelilla plant grows wild in semi-arid zones in Mexican Chihuahuan Desert, and it is harvested using careful manual process, ensuring the sustainability of the resource. The wax is separated from the plant with boiling water and refined by filtration and bleaching. ORGANIC sources ORGANIC BEESWAX Organic Beeswax is now available for cosmetic use. Crude beeswaxes are harvested in wild countries, free from intensive agriculture and from chemical or pesticide uses, certified by official organizations. These raw materials are carefully refined using only water and vegetal active carbons as refining and bleaching agents, in order to obtain a pure, white, cosmetic and pharmaceutical grade beeswax, organic certified. 17

SYNTHETIC WAXES SYNTHETIC BEESWAXES POLYETHYLENE WAX Synthetic beeswaxes are obtained by Polyethylene is obtained by polymerization combining waxy raw materials in order to of ethylene under severe conditions of reproduce natural beeswax characteristics. temperature and pressure. INCI Name: SYNTHETIC BEESWAX INCI Name: POLYETHYLENE HIGH TECH waxes SYNTHETIC BEESWAXES soft and flexible emollient and film-forming capacities control viscosity and thermal stability can be easily emulsified or dispersed CONCEPT PLUS POLYETHYLENE WAX hard, rigid and with a high melting point can be used as mild abrasive, as well as film-forming, gelling agent and viscosity controller can significantly reduce the crystal size of other crystalline raw materials, even at very low concentration 19

REACH REGULATION Reg. 1907/2006/EC REACH CONFORM LAW CONFORMITY ABWAX have been analyzed for verify their conformity to cosmetic legislation requirements: the product complies with Directive 2003/15/EC regarding the presence of 26 substances identified as allergenic (set threshold value of 10 ppm). Analytical data confirm that these allergens are absent; the product does not contain any substances intentionally added and classified as Carcinogenic, Mutagenic or Reprotoxic, category 1, 2 or 3 according to annex I of the Directive 67/548/EEC and its amendments, as the use of these substances is prohibited by the Directive 76/768/EC; the product has never been tested on animals accordingly to Directive 2003/15/EC (VII amendment of Dir. 76/768/ EC), come into force on 11/03/2009 for cosmetic ingredients; heavy metals are not present or added: if any they are in traces, as defined by Directive 76/768/EEC; the product complies with the Regulation 1907/2006/EC (REACH Regulation). 21

STABLE AND INERT THEY EMULSIFY AND DISPERSE EASILY IN ANY KIND OF FORMULATIONS A SAFE product for People SAFETY TESTS ABWAX have never been tested on animals, according to the Directive 2003/15/EC applied to cosmetic ingredients from 11/03/2009. Brasca has performed safety test in vitro and in vivo in humans in order to detect: the skin irritation potential by Patch Test in human volunteers: the product is non irritant; the skin sensitization potential, by a modified method of the Shelanski & Shelanski test: ABWAX are non allergenic and non irritant; the eye irritation potential by in vitro Het Cam Test: the product is non irritant. TECHNICAL DOSSIER ABWAX are further provided with RMDS (Raw Material Data Sheet), a document which collects all information needed by our customers: legislation conformities toxicological information certifications declarations clinical trials recommended dosage finished product formulations shelf-life storage conditions DECLARATIONS ABWAX are also provided with the following declarations: Absence of Phthalates BSE/TSE free Absence of Pesticides Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC s) free Glycol Ethers free 23

A definite, focused choice to keep your CUSTOMERS satisfied! Don t follow. LEAD. Choosing ABWAX ingredients will bring several advantages both to your company and your customers. HIGHLY FOCUSED INGREDIENTS ABWAX ingredients come from a targeted development, highly focused on their purity and efficacy. SUSTAINABILITY ABWAX perfectly reflect Brasca No Impact In Progress philosophy, and its attention towards Sustainable Development. Choose our products: raise and fulfill the awareness of your customers. RESPONSIBLE CHOICE ABWAX : a respectful choice for People and for the Environment. 25

AMEDEO BRASCA & C.Srl: Sede Amministrativa e Operativa: Via Celeste Milani, 22/24-21040 Origgio (VA) - Italy Tel. +39 0233512243 - +39 0233510150 - Fax +39 0233549210 - www.abpersonalcare.com - info@abpersonalcare.com DISCLAIMER: Although all statements or information in this document are believed to be accurate and reliable, they are presented for guidance only. Risks and liability when using or applying described products or suggestions are assumed by the user. Since conditions and methods of use of both product and information referred to herein are beyond our control, BRASCA expressly disclaims any liability as to any result obtained from using such product or relying on such information. Users are urged to make their own tests with materials described herein to determine strength, character, performance and safety. BRASCA disclaims any expressed or implied warranty, our formal specifications defining the limits of our commitment. No liability whatsoever can be accepted by BRASCA with regard to handling, processing or using concerned products, which must in all cases be employed in accordance with all relevant federal, state and local laws or regulations in force in concerned countries. Nothing contained herein is intended as a recommendation to use our products so as to infringe any patent. We assume no liability for customers violation of patent to other rights. Customers should make their own patent investigation relative to the proposed use. Should a patent be violated, customers should secure a license from the patent owner. Refer to MSDS for health & safety considerations. C-B-ABWax_Line - Rev 02 of 2012-07-10 PHOTO Fotolia, Amedeo Brasca & C. Srl