Cognis Takes Green Chemical Solutions to the Next Level  

When it introduced its unique Green Chemical Solutions (GCS) classification system in early 2007, Cognis Care Chemicals took its customer support for natural-based personal and home care products to a new level. Now, Green Chemical Solutions is moving into its second phase, focusing this time on formulations, their level of "greenness," and demonstrating the relationship between the naturalness of the end product and its performance through the Green Formulation Grid.
    The Portfolio Easy Guide helps manufacturers serve the "green" trend by showing at a glance what proportion of natural ingredients a Care Chemicals product contains. However, a key challenge for several applications in the personal and home care markets is to increase the level of "green" ingredients in formulations without compromising their performance. Cognis' focus is to provide ready-made formulations and concepts with different levels of "greenness" achieving the performance requirements of different market segments and consumers. This is reflected in the second phase of Green Chemical Solutions with the Green Formulation Grid, according to Cognis.