Consumer Specialties

With its Consumer Specialties Business Unit Evonik Industries is one of the world’s top suppliers of high-quality raw materials, additives, and active ingredients for a variety of applications in the areas skin and hair care, detergents, and special cleaners. The business unit also produces additives, process auxiliaries, and intermediates based on modified silicones and organic oligomers, which are used in the manufacture of polyurethane foam, plastics, and rubbers, to name just a few examples.

The business unit’s activities are shared by the business lines Care Specialties (comprising the Personal Care and Skin Care Product Lines), Household Care, Silicone Specialties (comprising the Polyurethane Additives and Industrial Specialties Product Lines) and Superabsorbers. Evonik is the largest manufacturer of superabsorbents in the world. Used not only in baby diapers, but also in feminine hygiene and incontinence products, they are remarkable performers. When they come into contact with water-containing fluids, FAVOR^® superabsorbents form a gel that securely absorbs and holds the fluid once it is bound - even under pressure.

The Consumer Specialties Business Unit generated annual sales revenues of almost €1.5 billion in 2009.  

Consumer Specialties Business Unit in Japan

Personal Care & Household Care

Personal Care

Evonik Personal Care business line is a global leader in the manufacture and supply of raw materials, additives, and active ingredients for the cosmetics industry. We provide our customers not only with a unique and comprehensive range of organic and silicone-based specialties but also with tailor-made system solutions for all kinds of skin and hair care products.

Product line

Active Ingredients, Rheological Additives, Deodorant, Agents, Solubilizers, Emollients, Stabilizers, Emulsfiers, Surfactants

Household Care

Evonik Household Care business line is a global leader in the manufacture and supply of raw materials and additives to the household, detergent, car care and industrial & institutional markets. The unique product portfolio combines a wide range of inorganic, organic and silicone based specialties to provide system solutions and tailormade products for our customer's needs.

Product line

Fabric softener raw materials, Specialty products for car care applications, Bleaching agents, Carpet care products, Caring additives, Silicone based polish additives, Odour absorbers

Polyurethane Additives

Polyurethane Additives specializes in all the necessary additives needed for production of polyurethane foam;stabilizers (silicone based and organic based) amine catalysts / tin catalysts / low VOC catalysts / release agents / color pastes / anitoxidants / antistatics etc.

・Tegostab^®
foam stabilizer for flexible/rigid/moulded foam (based on silicone-surfactants/non-silicone-surfactants)

• Kosmos^®
  metal catalyst
• Tegoamin^®
  amine catalyst
• Tegocolor^®
  colouring agent
• Ortegol^®
  cell-opner, anti-statics, softening agent, anti-oxidant
• Gorapur^®
  release agent

Super Absorbers

When diapers keep becoming lighter and lighter yet even more absorbent, it’s because of superabsorbers from Evonik. Our acrylic acid-based crosslinked polymers can hold many times their own mass in water. Only ten grams of superabsorber are needed to keep babies dry. Aside from babies’ diapers, FAVOR^® superabsorbers are also used in incontinence products and women’s hygiene products.