AAK Personal Care wins the NPA “Industry Champion Award”

This award recognizes AAK Personal Care’s development and manufacture of high performing, value added, functional and sustainable vegetable based emollients, bioactives and other Personal Care ingredients, complemented by AAK’s outstanding technical expertise and service.

Lipex SheaLight™ from AAK Personal Care is an eco-designed emollient ester, using shea butter and ethanol from renewable sources, environmentally acceptable catalysts and low energy processes. Since shea is a non-cultivated, wild crop there is no land use consumption in its production. The manual harvesting reduces the use of fossil fuels, and provides needed income to the rural women who perform the harvest in West Africa. Lipex SheaLight was named best Sustainable Ingredient at the Sustainable Beauty Awards in Paris 2014.

Lipex SheaLight™ is a highly functional emollient ester that delivers a light, silky soft feel and can be used in a wide variety of applications including skin care, body care, hair care, sun care and color cosmetic products.