₹500.00–₹3,500.00Price range: ₹500.00 through ₹3,500.00
Lanolin is a powerful emollient and occlusive used in cosmetics mainly for intense moisturization, barrier repair, and texture enhancement in heavy creams, lip and hand products. It is especially useful for very dry, chapped, or compromised skin.
Key cosmetic functions
Emollient & occlusive: Forms a semi‑occlusive film that reduces trans epidermal water loss (TEWL), giving long‑lasting moisturization in creams, balms, ointments, and lip products.
Skin-conditioning & soothing: Softens rough, cracked areas (heels, hands, elbows, nipples, severely dry patches) and improves skin suppleness.
Texture modifier: Improves richness, body, payoff, and adhesion in lipsticks, anhydrous balms, pomades, and foundations, and can help bind/ stabilize emulsions.
Lip care: High‑occlusion lip balms, medicated/chapped lip treatments, and some lipsticks and glosses for slip and cushion.
Hair and scalp: As lanolin or lanolin derivatives in pomades, hair creams, and conditioners as a conditioning and gloss agent (mainly for coarse/dry hair types).
Levels and formulation notes
Safety assessments report lanolin used up to around 30–40% in heavy leave‑on products (e.g., hand/body creams, nail creams) and even higher for some lipsticks/ointments, though typical cosmetics use much less due to tack and cost.
Practical ranges in cosmetics:
1–5% in standard emulsions to boost richness and barrier effect.
Lanolin
₹500.00 – ₹3,500.00Price range: ₹500.00 through ₹3,500.00
Lanolin is a powerful emollient and occlusive used in cosmetics mainly for intense moisturization, barrier repair, and texture enhancement in heavy creams, lip and hand products. It is especially useful for very dry, chapped, or compromised skin.
Key cosmetic functions
Emollient & occlusive: Forms a semi‑occlusive film that reduces trans epidermal water loss (TEWL), giving long‑lasting moisturization in creams, balms, ointments, and lip products.
Skin-conditioning & soothing: Softens rough, cracked areas (heels, hands, elbows, nipples, severely dry patches) and improves skin suppleness.
Texture modifier: Improves richness, body, payoff, and adhesion in lipsticks, anhydrous balms, pomades, and foundations, and can help bind/ stabilize emulsions.
Typical product uses
Leave‑on skin care: Rich hand/foot creams, barrier creams, cold creams, ointments, nipple balms, baby nappy creams, winter creams.
Lip care: High‑occlusion lip balms, medicated/chapped lip treatments, and some lipsticks and glosses for slip and cushion.
Hair and scalp: As lanolin or lanolin derivatives in pomades, hair creams, and conditioners as a conditioning and gloss agent (mainly for coarse/dry hair types).
Levels and formulation notes
Safety assessments report lanolin used up to around 30–40% in heavy leave‑on products (e.g., hand/body creams, nail creams) and even higher for some lipsticks/ointments, though typical cosmetics use much less due to tack and cost.
Practical ranges in cosmetics:
1–5% in standard emulsions to boost richness and barrier effect.
5–15% in intensive hand/foot creams, barrier creams, baby bottoms, nipple balms.
Higher (10–30% or more) in anhydrous ointments or thick balms, often combined with petrolatum, butters, or oils to modulate tack and melting profile.