Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is a fraction of the multifunctional near-natural raw material lecithin, and thereby a fundamental component of all cell membranes.
It contains linoleic acid and choline, important substances that cannot be synthesised by the human body, and that have outstanding properties as skin protection components. With its new BergaSom product range, Berg+Schmidt offers quality-oriented cosmetics manufacturers a powerful active ingredient with unique possibilities in the formulation of modern products. Thanks to intensive research, Berg+Schmidt can offer its innovative BergaSom with soy-based phosphatidylcholine or with high-purity fractions based on sunflower lecithin. Sunflower, a raw material source that consumers know and like, offers numerous advantages: It allows circumvention of the GMO question, and it has a high proportion of linoleic acid, a substance with valuable skin care properties. Hydrogenated and non-hydrogenated fractions from both sources round out the BergaSom product range and give manufacturers a wide variety of ways to optimise their face, body, hair and baby care products. Non-hydrogenated BergaSom has a high proportion of linoleic acid, making beneficial for skin damage such as acne. “It is needed in order to produce liposomes that enable active ingredients to penetrate into the skin,” explained Florence Jonnard, R&D director at Berg+Schmidt. “This raw material can also be used to make high-quality emulsifier-free nanoemulsions and lipogels.”
