Functional Specialties
Ingredients for Beauty™.
Coast Southwest is the region’s foremost distributor of personal care ingredients and other specialty chemicals. Coast Southwest maintains its leadership position by providing the most comprehensive and diverse product line in the business.
From ammonium lauryl sulfate and acai palmberry to zinc stearate, we can supply about any raw material for haircare, skincare, or cosmetics.
Formulate Success with Cutting Edge Cosmetic Science and Essential Chemistries.
We also know how important cutting edge cosmetic science is to our customers’ new product strategies. Our team scours the globe searching for unique sources of innovation and technology so we can deliver that right new ingredient. We can spark the imagination of our customers’ research and development teams without burning a hole in their budgets.
So if you are looking for that latest special ingredient, or maybe even a commodity, Coast Southwest has all the Ingredients for Beauty™.
Featured Product Lines
Olivatis® Emulsifiers
These novel ingredients are derived from olive oil and impart a luxurious skin feel and elegant texture while providing stability to the finished product.
Glossamer™ L6600
Glossamer™ L6600 is a bio-based, biodegradable polymer with impressive film-forming properties.
Natural Colors
Welcome to the world of colorMaker where science, experience, and art come together to produce custom natural color blends created for your specific product, process, distribution, and packaging requirements.
JD Functional
A unique premium line of bases which combine JD Jojoba Oil together with carefully chosen ingredients, opening the door to a new world of fresh and trendy consistencies, and offering consumers access to a unique sensory experience and supreme effectiveness. Just add an active compound, a special ingredient, or fragrance and create an entire new line of products that contain the extraordinary benefits of JD’s Jojoba Oil.
JD Pure
Extracted through an automated cold press process, JD Jojoba oils are produced to ensure the highest quality of pure, natural liquid wax (Jojoba oil INCI name: Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil). Jojoba Desert’s JD.Pure line comes in highly refined varieties – Golden, Organic & Colorless – each available in an odorless version.