Momentive Performance Products

Innovative Beauty and Personal Care Ingredients for Skin, Hair, Sun, and Color Cosmetics Applications

Selecting optimal ingredients for a cosmetic formulation involves a significant amount of scientific expertise. With 80 years of experience in the silicones industry, Momentive has accumulated extensive knowledge and developed advanced capabilities in cosmetic formulations. This knowledge allows us to create products that excel in performance, texture, touch and appearance. By collaborating with customers and following global trends, Momentive’s Beauty and Personal Care portfolio bring together ingredients that enhance formulations with visible and tangible benefits for consumers.

Our portfolio includes naturally derived ingredients, film formers, emollients, sensory enhancers, and other solutions to help formulators achieve desired results. Whether seeking long-lasting effects or soft focus in color cosmetics; improved spreadability in sun care products; frizz control and hydration for hair; or a velvety feel for skin care products, Momentive offers a broad range of solutions, including the Harmonie™ product range, which delivers high-performance and features increased content from biobased renewable feedstocks.

Ingredients for Cosmetics that Look and Feel Amazing

Working closely with customers and attentive to global trends, Momentive's portfolio for Beauty and Personal Care brings together ingredients that raise the level of formulation with benefits the consumers can look and feel.

Either silicone-based or naturally derived, we offer solutions that help the formulator achieve the desired result. Whether for long-lasting effects or soft focus in color cosmetics; spreadability in sun care products, frizz control and hydration for hair or a velvety sensation for skin care products.

Naturally Derived

When science and nature work together, you find HARMONIE™

Consumers today care about ingredients' composition as much as performance. HARMONIE™ by Momentive helps brands innovate and meet the high demands of the beauty market as well as the rising expectations of today’s consumers. This product range combines Momentive’s technical expertise with naturally derived plant and mineral feedstocks, offering high-performance personal care ingredients with higher content from biobased renewable feedstocks.

Momentive’s extensive experience in silicone chemistry and the beauty and personal care industry combined with our knowledge of consumer needs enables us to offer alternative, naturally derived products that perform effectively in the real world. The HARMONIE range of products offer beauty brands the best of both worlds: improving the naturality index of products without compromising on performance.

Silicone Innovation Meets Consumer Insight for Naturally Derived Beauty

Thanks to Momentive’s decades of experience working with silicone and the beauty and personal care industry, we were able to combine the deep knowledge of silicone chemistry with our understanding of the consumer market, which give us the conditions to offer alternative, naturally derived products that perform in the real world.

HARMONIE™ has been designed to provide the best of both worlds for beauty and personal care brands that are committed to improving the naturality index of products but won’t compromise on product performance.

Sensory-Enhancing Ingredient Technologies

Advanced Ingredient Technologies for Beauty and Personal Care Formulations

Silkier lotions. More efficient shampoos and conditioners. Brighter, smoother, longer lasting cosmetics. More spreadable and effective sunscreens. Formulators in the personal care industry have long looked to Momentive for silicone ingredients to help them produce new products with benefits consumers can see and feel. And we've put our eight decades of experience to good use creating a wide range of personal care solutions to do just that.