Enhancing delivery of actives for hair HairForce™ HCE is a phosphate‑ester that delivers actives to the hair. With this technology, HairForce™ HCE enhances hair colour uptake and improves conditioning of the hair fibres.

HairForce™ HCE (Oleth-5 Phosphate (and) Dioleyl Phosphate)

Enhancing delivery of actives for hair HairForce™ HCE is a phosphate‑ester that delivers actives to the hair. With this technology, HairForce™ HCE enhances hair colour uptake and improves conditioning of the hair fibres.

Hair colour enhancer The use of HairForce™ HCE in hair dyes accelerates colouring inside the hair cortex, enabling formulators to achieve greater colour uptake, higher intensity, and improved washfastness.

Hair conditioning enhancer Phosphate esters combined with conditioning agents (e.g., polyquaterniums or cationic guar) are known to improve conditioning in shampoo systems. HairForce™ HCE (mono‑ and di‑ester) further enhances deposition of cationic polymers and silicones, as demonstrated by coacervation studies.

Features / Benefits

Hair Colour Benefits

• Promotes penetration of dye intermediates into the cortex

• Improves rate of colour deposition

• Enhances colour washfastness

• Increases colour intensity

• Provides stable, uniform emulsions

• Operates across a wide pH range

Hair Conditioning Benefits

• Leaves hair less damaged and easier to comb post‑dye

• Improves delivery of cationic actives

• Suitable for clear or opaque formulations

• Provides stable, uniform emulsions

Applications

• Permanent, semi‑permanent, and temporary hair colour systems using HairForce™ HCE

Dioleyl Phosphate

• Promotes lamellar structures

• Highly lipophilic for conditioning

• Enhances wash‑off resistance

Oleth‑5 Phosphate

• Improves dispersibility of water‑insoluble actives

• More hydrophilic than di‑ester

• Stabilises emulsions

HairForce™ HCE is 100% active, substantive to hair, vegetable‑derived, and suitable for global markets. Wide pH tolerance allows use in colour bases (high pH), developers (low pH), shampoos, and conditioners. Recommended usage: 2–8%.

Hair Colour – Technology Overview Hair colour products are oxidative (permanent/demi‑permanent) or non‑oxidative (semi‑permanent/temporary). The oxidative system uses a tint (high pH, dye precursors, emulsifiers) and a developer (low pH, H₂O₂) which react to produce permanent colour.

How Does HairForce™ HCE Enhance Colouring Performance? HairForce™ HCE delays premature oxidation in the emulsion, allowing more dye intermediates to penetrate the cortex before reacting. On application, the finer emulsion breaks rapidly, releasing dye actives within the hair shaft, locking colour internally rather than on the surface.

Surfactant role: HairForce™ HCE is a crypto‑anionic phosphate ester that forms fine oil‑in‑water emulsions, promoting hair fibre wetting, swelling, and uniform spreading for accelerated colouring.

Change in Emulsion Structure of Colour Mixture

After 1 min, 2 min, 10 min:

• HairForce™ HCE emulsions display more uniform, smaller droplets than control, maintaining actives unreacted until cortex penetration.

Hair Colour Performance Studies comparing hair colour formulas with and without HairForce™ HCE measured:

• Visual tress evaluation (10 min)

• Hunter LabScan ΔL, Δa, Δb

• Colour washfastness (20 shampoos)

• Wet combing forces

• Contact angle before/after dyeing

Visual Evaluation & Panel Preference Using medium auburn dye (10 min):

• Grey tresses with 4% HairForce™ HCE delivered richer, deeper colour vs. control.

• 100% of panelists preferred HCE‑treated tress (n=24).

Hair Conditioning: Technology Overview Phosphate esters promote active deposition and conditioning. HairForce™ HCE enhances coacervation and deposition of polyquaterniums (e.g., PQ‑10, PQ‑7) and GHTC in clear shampoos.

Performance Evaluations Shampoo base (active%):

• Ammonium Laureth Sulfate 14.0

• Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate 4.0

• Cocamidopropyl Betaine 2.6

• HairForce™ HCE 2.0

• Polyquaternium‑10 0.5

• Preservative q.s.

• Water up to 100

Conditioning (Combing Studies) HairForce™ HCE + PQ‑10 shampoo showed greatest reduction in peak load and total combing work vs. control and other esters.

Conclusion – Hair Conditioning Enhancement HairForce™ HCE enhances conditioning and detangling in clear shampoos when used with polymers like PQ‑10 and GHTC, delivering perceivable benefits to consumers.

Solubility

• 75/25 Alcohol/Water: Soluble

• 25/75 Alcohol/Water: Miscible

• Water: Miscible

• Propylene Glycol: Soluble

• Glycerin: Soluble (slight haze)

• ALS, SLS, SLES, TEALS: Soluble

• Mineral Oil: Soluble

• Almond Oil: Soluble

• Dimethicone: Insoluble

Mixing method: mixed in oil phase or glycol

Usage rate: 2-8%

Product characteristics: Yellow liquid

Solubility: Miscible in water, soluble in propylene glycol and oil (such as mineral oil)

Storage: Can be stored at room temperature. But close the bottle cap tightly. and protect from sunlight or heat The product has a shelf life of at least 2 years.

INCI : Oleth-5 Phosphate (and) Dioleyl Phosphate