Botanical Beads
Discover Cargill's beads portfolio which includes beads of multiple botanical origins, multiple size options between 100 to 1,000 microns, and a wide assortment of standard colors. Whether you’re looking for scrubbing beads, decorative beads, or soft beads our processing technology creates beads with even pigment dispersion resulting in stable, vibrant colors.
Ecobeads™
INCI: Stearyl Stearate (and) Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax (and) Jojoba Esters
Ecobeads nature-derived, biodegradable scrubbing beads are suitable for daily use to achieve brighter, more radiant skin. Ecobeads have been shown to be less disruptive to skin barrier function than other exfoliants without losing performance.
Ecobeads come standard with multiple sized spherical beads falling in a range of 100 -1,000 microns and come in 21 standard colors to choose from.
Florabeads® Jojoba
INCI: Jojoba Esters
Biodegradable Florabeads Jojoba botanically-derived scrubbing beads are made of jojoba esters to provide gentle yet effective exfoliation. The jojoba plant is native to the Sonoran Desert and is well-known for its moisturizing properties. Their spherical shape makes exfoliating so gentle that it can be used every day.
Florabeads Jojoba are available in 21 standard colors and controlled sizing options of small, medium, and large. Custom colors and sizes are available upon request.
Florabeads® Carnauba & Florabeads® RBW
Florabeads Carnauba INCI: Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax
Florabeads RBW INCI: Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Wax
Florabeads biodegradable scrubbing beads offer gentle yet effective skin exfoliation. Florabeads Carnauba are nature derived from palm and Florabeads RBW from Rice Bran Wax. They are available in their unpigmented color and in a size range of 100 -1,000 microns.
Florapearls®
INCI: Jojoba Esters
Colorful Florapearls particles can be the final touch for natural formulation aesthetics and make products stand out on the shelf. Florapearls' large diameter adds big, bold color to formulations.
Florapearls are hard, smooth spheres of nature-derived jojoba esters. They are uniform in size to approximately 1,000 microns and are available in a large array of standard colors.
Florasomes® & Floraspheres®
INCI: Jojoba Esters
Florasomes soft particles are 100% jojoba-derived and melt onto the skin to deliver the additives they contain without leaving a sticky residue. Florasomes deliver vitamin E (standard) or can deliver customer-supplied vitamins, fragrances, special effect pigments, or other additives.
Floraspheres offer all the benefits and features of Florasomes without additives and deliver the same sensory experience during applications.
Florasomes and Floraspheres are sized to a uniform diameter and are available in three standard sizes, two playtimes, and 21 standard colors to choose from providing greater flexibility to formulators.
International Organization for Standardization - Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients - first edition: 2016 Range of naturalness based on type and level of pigment loading.
These products do not fall under the definition of microplastic according to EU REACH committees' opinion and US Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015.
These products when tested were found to be inherently biodegradable according to OECD 301B or OECD 302D.
The responsibility of a vegan claim lies with the cosmetic manufacturer. Please consult your own legal or regulatory experts to ensure suitability of the product with your preferred standard.
Cargill has not tested ingredients in final OTC drug formulations. Compliance with FDA regulations is the responsibility of the customer.