Applications

Eastman has a long history of providing specialty ingredients to the personal care and cosmetics industry. We have a wide variety of products available for color cosmetics, hair care, and skin care applications. These products include adhesion promoters, film formers, preservatives, emollient esters, and functional skin care ingredients to help boost your product performance. For more information on Eastman's ingredient portfolio by application, download our application guide.

Eyes and face color

In color cosmetics, water, smudge, and transfer resistance are essential for all-day wear. Eastman offers ingredients for improved performance in all the resistance properties in applications such as foundation, lip color, eyeliner, and mascara.

Hair care

In hair care, personalization and individuality are important to consumers. Eastman ingredients for hairstyling can boost your products’ performance. We offer a variety of hair care ingredients that enhance key performance attributes such as a reduced dry time, gloss and body, hold and curl retention, manageability, and tunable firmness.

Nail care

Consumers expect their nails to look good for five to seven days after a manicure. Eastman has film-forming and plasticizing ingredients to improve adhesion, gloss, hardness, and dry times in nail polishes and lacquers.

Skin care

For consumers, skin care is all about high-quality ingredients and efficacy. From sunscreens to moisturizing creams, Eastman offers a variety of ingredients to improve skin care formulations. We have antiaging ingredients and functional film formers that provide increased stability and solubility, better skin compatibility, excellent film formation, and increased water resistance.