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Personal Care Ingredients

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DKSH Business Line Personal Care is a leading personal care and cosmetic ingredients distributor and global provider of Market Expansion Services for business partners in the personal care and cosmetics industry.

We provide cosmetic ingredients to manufacturers in the personal care industry in the skin care, hair care and color, oral care, sun care, make-up, toiletries and home care sectors.

We help our customers to develop new innovative products and applications in collaboration with our valuable suppliers and our team of specialized staff.
 

What DKSH can do for you

With our long-standing business contacts and strategic market insight, we develop new and alternative sources for innovative high-performance cosmetic ingredients that help drive your business success. Through our comprehensive global network, which gives instant access to markets around the world, we provide responsible and traceable sourcing of hard-to-find cosmetic raw materials and products.

We develop tailor-made new product concepts, formulations and breakthrough applications in collaboration with our team of specialized staff from our dedicated award-winning innovation centers. Our market insight and broad overview enables us to scout for trends in products and technology in the skin care, hair care and color, oral care, sun care, make-up, toiletries and home care sectors.

We provide all the required marketing and sales services as well as distribution and inbound logistics for companies manufacturing personal care products. We have the capability to manage your entire supply chain, including import and export management, warehousing solutions and value-added services.
 

Our services at a glance

We offer tailored services that create new opportunities for clients and customers including:

Get the most innovative materials worldwide

  • We provide early trend scouting of innovative raw materials and screening of new suppliers in accordance with international standard audit performance
  • We source hard-to-find raw materials and cost-effective products through our global supplier network
  • We provide in-house quality assurance and control, cGMP audits and regulatory affairs
  • We provide tailor-made product modifications and develop products
  • We negotiate purchase orders and contracts with suppliers
  • We provide just-in-time delivery and availability based on agreements
  • We provide project management, technical transfer and troubleshooting
  • We define product specifications together with our customers

Develop new products, ideas and patents with us

  • Our innovation centers develop prototype finished product formulations for start-up products, product testing and demonstration
  • We provide information exchange on global/regional/local market trends with customers and suppliers
  • We collaborate with customers and suppliers to develop customized finished product formulations
  • We assist customers in troubleshooting difficulties and provide technical transfer
  • We assist in clinical trials, efficacy testing and home usage tests
  • We support technical seminars for customers in collaboration with suppliers
  • We provide regulatory affairs support

Let us bring your products to new markets

  • We develop market access strategies and business plans
  • Our regulatory affairs knowledge and expertise allows market entry and product registration in major chemical markets
  • We expand your market potential through our technical expertise, capabilities and market insights
  • We attain import licenses, importation through customs, maintain relations with national and international authorities and handle regulatory affairs
  • We provide marketing support and give market feedback to suppliers and customers
  • We organize technical seminars and lectures to build and enhance technical expertise
  • We participate in industry exhibitions and industry associations
  • We establish market feedback mechanisms related to global trends and innovations

We deliver in time, on budget and in line with your specifications

  • We have well-established distribution channels and extensive local customer networks
  • We provide a dedicated logistics service, including handling of products under special conditions, such as dangerous goods/hazardous materials, transportations in cool and top-ventilated containers
  • We provide an advisory service on transportation safety
  • We coordinate with warehousing manpower and facilities for stock handling
  • Our DKSH IT systems supports supply chain management services, from material requirements planning to delivery at customer sites
  • Use our global logistics network for just-in-time delivery of materials

We care about new products and accompany them all the way

  • Our experienced sales support are focused on your complete product and service satisfaction
  • Our technical staff monitor plant trials at customer sites as required

Success stories

  • Hayashibara - Successful partnership

    Using its innovative technology, the Japanese company Hayashibara, a leader in enzymology, microbiology and biotechnology with activities in the life sciences, developed the specialty ingredient AA2G, a stabilized vitamin C for healthier, brighter, younger looking skin, which has many applications in the cosmetics industry.

  • DKSH and Cirebelle: the beauty of success

    Cirebelle Ltd., a large South African manufacturer of beauty waxes and beads, planned to launch a popular product outside their home market yet lacked experience in foreign markets. Especially the strictly regulated European Union area was unfamiliar ground. Cirebelle approached DKSH for assistance in entering these markets and in extending the product information and specification on various products.

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