Personal Care

Innovative personal care and cosmetic ingredients, formulations and services

DKSH is your leading global distributor of innovative ingredients and formulations for the personal care and cosmetics industry. 

Our functional products enhance your product performance and have a wide range of applications. For applications including skin care, hair care and color, oral care, sun care, makeup, toiletries and more, you can benefit from our product portfolio.

Our range of tailored value-added services can support you to increase your market potential. From regulatory support and consulting to sourcing new and hard-to-find ingredients; from innovation and formulation capabilities to marketing intelligence solutions – you can gain from our integrated one-stop approach.

Products Choose your market segment and explore our innovative ingredients and formulations:

Skin care

Our innovative portfolio for skin care applications includes:

  • Actives
  • Antioxidants
  • Chelating agents
  • Cleansers
  • Co-emulsifiers
  • Conditioners
  • Dyes
  • Emollients
  • Emulsifiers
  • Exfoliants
  • Humectants
  • Preservatives
  • Preservative boosters
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Solubilizer
  • Texturizers
Hair care and color

Our innovative portfolio for hair care and color applications includes:

  • Actives
  • Chelating agents
  • Conditioners
  • Dyes
  • Emollients
  • Exfoliants
  • Fixatives
  • Humectants
  • Preservatives
  • Preservative boosters
  • Rheological modifiers
  • Solubilizers
  • Styling polymers
Oral care

Our innovative portfolio for oral care applications includes:

  • Actives
  • Chelating agents
  • Humectants
  • Pigments
  • Preservatives
  • Preservative boosters
  • Rheological modifiers
  • Solubilizer
Sun care

Our innovative portfolio for sun care applications includes:

  • Actives
  • Antioxidants
  • Chelating agents
  • Co-emulsifiers
  • Dyes
  • Emulsifiers
  • Humectants
  • Pigments
  • Preservatives
  • Preservative boosters
  • Rheological modifiers
  • Solubilizers
  • Texturizers
Make-up

Our innovative portfolio for makeup applications includes:

  • Actives
  • Co-emulsifiers
  • Conditioners
  • Dyes
  • Emollients
  • Emulsifiers
  • Humectants
  • Opacifiers
  • Pearlizers
  • Pigments
  • Preservatives
  • Preservative boosters
  • Rheological modifiers
  • Texturizers
Toiletries

Our innovative portfolio for toiletry applications includes:

  • Actives
  • Cleansers
  • Emollients
  • Humectants
  • Preservatives
  • Preservative boosters
  • Rheological modifiers
  • Solubilizer
Homecare, Industrial & Institutional Cleaning

Our innovative portfolio for household applications includes:

  • Cleansers
  • Dyes
  • Humectants
  • Pigments
  • Preservatives
  • Preservative boosters
  • Rheological modifiers
  • Solubilizers

DKSH Discover : our online products catalog Innovative ingredients and specialty chemicals at your digital fingertips

 


Are you looking for a more convenient and accessible solution to source your specialty chemicals and ingredients? Well now you can access the vast range of products from DKSH Performance Materials 24/7!

Explore our brand new customer portal: DKSH Discover, a digital platform for specialty chemicals and ingredients for the food and beverage, personal care, pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals industries!

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Services

As a leading Market Expansion Services provider, distribution and logistics are the essence of our business. We also provide financing, sales and marketing to complete our core service offering. You additionally benefit from a range of tailored value-added services to support your growing needs including:

Innovation & Formulation

Innovation & Formulation

Innovation & Formulation

We develop cutting-edge products and formulations from our network of 18 state-of-the-art food and beverage innovation centers. We generate ideas, ensure compliance and provide technical training to increase market coverage for our clients. Our business partners benefit from a range of tailor-made solutions that reduce time to market and increase competitive advantage.

Learn more about our Innovation & Formulation services

Sourcing

Sourcing

Sourcing

We provide instant access to markets around the world, including the major chemical producing countries. Our comprehensive network of over 60 sourcing specialists procures hard-to-find ingredients and chemicals and identifies reliable alternative sources for specific quality, price, quantity and delivery needs. We also act as an early trend scout to share knowledge of latest developments and technologies, ensuring our business partners remain one step ahead.

Learn more about our Sourcing services

Regulatory

Regulatory

Regulatory

The regulatory landscape around the world is far from homogeneous. It is becoming increasingly complex as many countries introduce new systems and certification schemes to safeguard their economies. Keeping abreast of these changes can become very time-consuming for companies looking to expand in different markets. Our network of on-the-ground regulatory specialists have a deep understanding of regulatory environments and provide a range of support services to ensure our business partners are compliant.

Learn more about our Regulatory services

Digital

Digital

Digital

Our Digital team supports you to drive business growth through digital transformation.

Through an integrated network of digital systems, DKSH embraces operational agility and applies advanced analytics to better understand industry trends and the needs of its customers.

DKSH supports its business partners to market and sell their products through an omni-channel approach involving digital marketing automation, industry-specialized marketplaces and DKSH Discover, a portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

All of these services combined enable DKSH’s business partners to stay ahead and remain competitive.

Learn more about our Digital services

Success stories

We have helped many business partners to succeed in markets around the world. Learn how we've supported them in the personal care and cosmetics industry.

Insights

What trends and developments are impacting the personal care and cosmetics industry.

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