As a new addition to the Arch Chemicals corporate family, people often wonder, what exactly do we at Arch Personal Care Products do? Do you make shampoo and lipstick? Well, not exactly, what we do is make your shampoo or lipstick or any other personal care product better. As a manufacturer of quality raw materials for personal care products of all types, we provide you, our customers, with the tried and true active ingredients you are looking for and maybe a few that you didn't realize you needed!

    As a purveyor of ideas, we can provide you with product ideas, formulations and marketing stories, as well as the ingredients to go along with them, to help you develop your new product formulations or maybe even improve on the ones you already have.

    Arch Personal Care Products can develop new ingredients in three ways:

    Ingredients developed for sale to the entire industry with no exclusivity. These ingredients are unique in their functionality and are accompanied by technical data including safety and efficacy testing, and formulating advice. Arch Personal Care works with specific customers to define a new ingredient and develop the product specifically for that customer to meet their needs and specifications. Arch Personal Care develops "opportunistic" new ingredients, which meet a marketplace need. Presently, these ingredients are developed on a quicker schedule and are not introduced with a full brochure and efficacy testing. Their use is dictated mainly by readily available, existing product and industry knowledge.