Mangifera Indica Butter ●
TL;DR. This ingredient is primarily an emollient and texture-building lipid. It softens skin, reduces water loss, and adds body to creams, balms, sticks, and butters.
What does Mangifera Indica Butter do in a cosmetic formula?
This ingredient is primarily an emollient and texture-building lipid. It softens skin, reduces water loss, and adds body to creams, balms, sticks, and butters.
Is Mangifera Indica Butter clean?
From a clean-beauty perspective, it is generally well tolerated and has little restricted-list friction. Sensitivity is uncommon, though any botanical lipid can carry trace proteins or oxidation byproducts depending on refinement and freshness.
Is Mangifera Indica Butter sustainable?
This material is plant-derived and commonly pressed from fruit kernels that are often a food-processing byproduct. It is biodegradable, with sustainability depending mainly on agricultural practices, traceability, and whether refining uses responsible energy and solvent controls.
Is Mangifera Indica Butter COSMOS-approved?
It is compatible with COSMOS-natural and COSMOS-organic when sourced and processed under the standard, typically through pressing and permitted refining steps. It fits Green Chemistry well because it is renewable, biodegradable, and functional without complex synthesis.
How does Mangifera Indica Butter work chemically?
Chemically, this material is a triglyceride-rich fat, mainly stearic and oleic acid esters with smaller palmitic and linoleic fractions. It is solid to semi-solid near room temperature, melts around 30–40°C, and is commonly used around 1–10% in emulsions or much higher in anhydrous balms and sticks.
Last updated 2026-05-13