ABSTRACT
PALM BUTTER
PALM BUTTER is protected by two of Kalichem’s patents and finds the rationale for its use
in cosmetics because:
• It has an original and excellent melting point.
First pressed ELAEIS GUINEENSIS fruit oil
• The molecular structure and the combination of the fatty acids contained in its
triglyceric molecules make Palm Butter particularly stable and eudermic.
• Stability is naturally improved by natural antioxidants, including the well
known Squalene.
• Beta Carotene and Vitamin E provide Palm Butter with excellent anti-aging
properties and radical scavenger action.
• Palm Butter’s cosmetic claim has a wide range applicable to all age targets, sex and
issues.
• Palm Butter has already been employed in the formulation of many cosmetic
bases: such cosmetic bases have been tested for stability, in-vitro cytotoxicity (100%
negative) and skin effectiveness by means of in vivo and in vitro tests.
In conclusion, it is possible to assert that the skin treated with Palm Butter as a cosmetic
ingredient improves its wellness and reactivity against external agents, gaining youth, density
and beauty. We can also assert that Palm Butter provides the skin with an excellently structured
hydrolipidic layer and with an improved antioxidant defensive system, in that it is better
irrorated from the dermic area. The use of Palm Butter as a cosmetic ingredient leaves the
skin visibly more tonic, younger and healthier, due to a better cellular activity and dermal
biochemistry. It is thus indicated for all kinds of cosmetic and cosmeceutical formulations
and for all ages as an active and effective skin defence system.
Palm Butter
INCI NAME Elaesis Guineensis Oil
ORGANOLECTIC
Colour:
Odour:
Appearance:
Yellow-orange versus reddish
Characteristic
Soft butter mass
CHEMICAL-PHYSICAL
Flow point °C:
Jodio’s number gl2/100g:
33 - 37
48 - 56
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Head Office and Production:
Via G. Pastore,1
25082 Botticino Sera (BS) ITALIA
Tel: +39.030.2693532
Fax: +39.030.2193581
e-mail: [email protected]
www.kalichem.it
A new lipid active ingredient
and innovative matrix for eudermic emulsion
with enhanced cosmeceutical activity
PATENDED INGREDIENT
PATENDED INGREDIENT
Palm Butter marketing claim: Primary functional base-ingredient composed of functional
lipid compounds
It must be highlighted that PALM BUTTER contains, in addition to the tryglicerid fraction,
some valuable and very effective compounds for the biochemistry of the skin
PALM BUTTER: CHEMICAL STRUCTURE AND PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF MECHANICALLY PROCESSED PALM OIL
Non-tryglicerid compounds
content and percentage
Palm Butter is extracted from the red-yellow mesocarp of the Elaeis Guineensis fruit.
It contains 45/50% of oil and has consistancy like soft butter at room temperature.
Component
Fatty acids composition comparison between palm butter and other oils
Fatty acid
Red Palm
Caproic 6:0
Palm kernel
0,2
Coconut
Soybean
Groundnuts Cotton seed
Corn
3,3
8
Capric 10
3,5
6,4
48,5
Myristic 14:0
1,1
16,3
17,6
0,1
0,1
0,8
0,8
Trace
Palmitic 16:0
44
8,5
8,4
11
11,6
23,7
12,2
6,5
Stearic 18:0
4,5
2,4
2,5
4
3,1
2,6
2,2
4,5
Oleic 18:1
39,2
15,4
6,5
23,4
48,5
18,4
27,5
21,1
Linoleic 18:2
10,1
2,4
1,5
53,2
31,4
53
57
66,2
Linoleic 18:3
0,4
0,1
0,9
Arachidic 20:0
0,1
0,1
1,5
0,3
0,1
0,3
Saturates
49,9
82,1
91,9
15,1
16,3
27,4
14,5
11,3
Monounsaturates
39,2
15,4
6,5
23,4
48,5
18,4
27,5
21,1
Polyunsaturates
10,5
2,4
1,5
61
31,4
53,1
57,9
66,2
7,8
This comparative chart shows that the composition of PALM BUTTER is special in that it
provides unique chemical and physical characteristics. PALM BUTTER is in fact the best
ingredient to employ in cosmetic formulations because:
d.
e.
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36,2
-carotene
54,4
-carotene
3,3
Lycopene
3,8
Xanthophyils
2,2
y-tocopherols
47,8
b.
c.
-carotene
-tocopherols
0,2
a.
500±700
Tocopherol:
Lauric 12:0
mg/kg (in palm butter)
Sunflower
0,5
Caprylic 8:0
%
Carotenoids:
It contains triglycerids with saturated fatty acids which allow the cream to obtain the
consistency required without having to go through a process of hydrogenization;
Stabilizes oxidation
It contains triglycerids at melting point, with a relatively low presence of solid lipids
at a temperature of 10 C°: this is of great advantage when formulating products
with a wide range of consistencies
It contains a high percentage of Linoleic Acid, which is an essential fatty acid precursor
of a long chain of unsaturated fatty acids which are very important for the health and
the integrity of the skin.
It has a good and competitive price if compared with other mineral , animal or natural
oils.
500±800
35
35
-tocopherols
10
+
10
-tocopherols
Tocotrienols:
500±700
-Tocotrienols
30
- Tocotrienols
5
- Tocotrienols
50
- Tocotrienols
15
Sterols:
±300
Campesterol
21
Stigmasterols
21
-sitosterol
63
500±1000
Phosphatides:
Total Alcohols
±800
Triterpenic alcohol
80
Aliphatic alcohol
20
Functional activity of primary non triglyceric compounds in PALM BUTTER
CAROTENOIDS: they are powerful antioxidants; particularly for the presence among them
of Beta carotene which is the most powerful natural antioxidant active on the skin.
TOCOPHEROL and TOCOTRIENOL: Palm Butter, unlike other vegetal oils, has plenty
of tocotrienols which have a more powerful anti-oxidant effect than tocopherols. The high
concentration of Tocotrienols is, in fact, sufficient enough to guarantee the stability of the
oily fraction and a good biological activity as “radical scavenger”.
STEROLS: there is a high concentration of Squalene which is knowingly very active in the
formation and in the maintenance of the hydrolipidic film on skin upper layers.
Squalene is, in fact, a primary ingredient in the composition of the sebaceous gland secretion
and of the lipid fraction in the corneous layer where it acts as an antioxidant in synergy with
Vitamin E and Beta carotene.
POLAR LIPIDS: Ceramides and their derivatives, are very important in the biochemistry
of the epidermis and of the dermis, particularly for the eudermis. Furthermore they are very
important for the good functionality of the upper hydrolipidic layer.
Head Office and Production:
Via G. Pastore,1
25082 Botticino Sera (BS) ITALIA
Tel: +39.030.2693532
Fax: +39.030.2193581
e-mail: [email protected]
www.kalichem.it