EXTRACTION OF FRAGANCES AND FUNCTIONAL INGREDIENTS

• Natural extracts from vegetal sources ((botanicals, spices, seeds, roots, etc.) with high-added value because of their aromatic features or other labelled functionalities for cosmetics that may be obtained by supercritical CO2 extraction: extracts from angelica root, lavender, rosemary, pepper, ginger, cardamom, ambrette,… are examples of recognized supercritical CO2 extracts used as odour ingredients in perfume formulations.

In many cases flavour ingredients are not in high concentration in the natural materials. Besides, extraction process has to be selective to avoid the extraction of other not interesting substances that reduce the quality and purity of the extract. Supercritical CO2 extraction is in many cases the best solution for the obtention of these perfumery ingredients, extracting them from

• Seeds: ambrette, cardamom, pepper…
• Berries: juniper Berry…
• Roots: ginger, angelica…
• Flowers and/or leaves: lavender, chamomille, arnica…

We offer our processing services to obtain your extracts with supercritical CO2 extraction technology.

CO2 is a green solvent, and ALTEX is organic certified, so organic certificate is available for the extracts obtained with this technology at our facility.

EXTRACTION OF FINE OILS AND VEGETAL FATS (NATURAL BUTTERS)

• Fine oils from vegetal sources such as rice bran, grape seeds, sesame seeds, almonds, pumpkin seeds, pepper, …are some examples of oils included as ingredients commonly used in cosmetics in the 2006/257/CE list and may be obtained by CO2 extraction.
• Very valuable vegetal butter such as cocoa butter,l apricot kernel butter or shea butter are also obtained with CO2 extraction.So, CO2 extraction is widely used to obtain high qualit oils to be used as cosmetic ingredients, from natural materials like:
  • Seeds: amaranth oil, cumin oil, chia oil, pomegranate seed oil, rosehip seed oil, moringa oil…
  • Berries: juniper berrie…
  • Nuts and cereals: almond oil, rice bran oil, wheat germ oil…
  • Flowers and/or leaves: árnica oil, Chamomilla, lavender, Marigold oil…