AGENAJEL for Personal Care – Pregelatinized Starches
Instant cold-water thickeners for creamy, cold-process emulsions and hair formulations
Pregelatinized AGENAJEL starches for personal care deliver instant thickening in cold water and build smooth, stable textures for creams, lotions and hair products. The range (corn- and potato-based grades) supports cold-process manufacture and offers COSMOS-compliant options for natural cosmetic formulations.
Key benefits
- Instant cold-water thickening: hydrate at room temperature for rapid viscosity development in cold processes.
- Creamy sensory profile: builds stable, smooth emulsions and enhances creaminess in leave-on products.
- Formulation compatibility: works well with cosmetic raw materials and synergises with xanthan for yield and stability.
- Regulatory / natural options: COSMOS-compliant grades available for clean-label personal care.
Pregelatinized AGENAJEL grades provide rapid room-temperature viscosity, improving spreadability, creaminess and low-shear stability in oil-in-water emulsions used for moisturizers and body creams.
Cold-water soluble AGENAJEL grades build desirable viscosity and texture in rinse-off systems and, where a semi-transparent gel is required, AGENAJEL CLEAR enables natural-based, semi-transparent styling gels and beard/hair pastes.
Product range
Enhance the activity of your cosmetics the natural way by choosing the right variant. We provide formulation guidance, sample trials and scale-up support.
Formulation insights
How AGENAJEL thickens without heat
Pregelatinized starches are cooked and dried so their crystalline structure is disrupted which allows immediate water uptake and swelling at room temperature, producing instant viscosity without heating.
In AGENAJEL grades the type (for example hydroxypropyl starch phosphate vs. distarch phosphate) defines key performance: hydroxypropyl derivatives tend to give cold-water solubility and clearer, more transparent gels, while distarch phosphates deliver a fuller, creamier rheology and high pH/shear stability.
In practice, these starches act as yield-forming thickeners that stabilise emulsions and synergise with gums (notably xanthan) to increase low-shear viscosity and reduce syneresis. Correct dispersion technique (pre-redisperse in oil or glycerine where recommended, or use intensive stirring in water) avoids lumping and controls final appearance, making AGENAJEL pregelatinized starches practical for cold-process personal-care manufacture.