The technology offers an soft sensory feel and soft-focus/blurring effect to products. It also imparts high skin adhesion, moistness, evenness and smoothness, per Ajinomoto.
Ajinomoto
Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.'s Amihope SB-103 (INCI: tapioca starch (and) lauroyl lysine) is a highly biodegradable spherical functional powder that can replace plastic microbeads in formulations.
- Deep dive: Blurry Beauty
The technology offers an soft sensory feel and soft-focus/blurring effect to products. It also imparts high skin adhesion, moistness, evenness and smoothness, per Ajinomoto.
The launch comes amid a years-long campaign to incorporate natural, biodegradable alternatives to plastic microbeads.
