Sumac Wax (Rhus Succedanea Fruit Wax, Japan Wax) is a 100% natural, vegetable-derived soft wax supplied as off-white pellets for cosmetic formulation. It works as a soft structuring wax, emollient, texture modifier, and consistency agent for formulas that need smoother glide, better pay-off, and a more flexible wax network.

This double-refined grade is selected for a lower acid value profile, making it especially useful in pencil and stick systems where a cleaner surface appearance and reduced blooming are important.

Product Highlights

• Soft natural wax for lipsticks, balms, eyebrow pencils, eyeliner pencils, mascara, cream blush, cream eye color, balm sticks, O/W creams, lotions, and soft-hold styling systems
• Improves glide, cushion, creaminess, and color pay-off in wax-based color cosmetics
• Helps reduce excessive brittleness and drag in pencil and stick formats
• Adds a softer, richer after-feel to O/W emulsions when melted into the oil phase and emulsified properly
• Useful as a Japan Wax-style natural wax option for formulas that need plasticity instead of strong hardness

Formulation Guidance

Sumac Wax is ideal when the formula needs softness, flexibility, and a smoother application feel. In sticks and pencils, it helps the product glide more comfortably and release color more easily. In O/W emulsions, it enriches the oil phase and gives the finished texture a softer, more elegant feel when paired with the right emulsifier and rheology system.

Because this is a soft wax, combine it with harder waxes such as candelilla wax, carnauba wax, sunflower wax, rice bran wax, or suitable synthetic/ester waxes when high mold strength, hot-climate stability, or strong stick hardness is required.

Use Level

• Recommended use range: 0.5-20%
• O/W creams and lotions: 0.5-3%
• Mascara and cream color cosmetics: 1-8%
• Lipsticks, balms, and pencils: 3-15%, adjusted to the desired softness, glide, and pay-off

How to Mix

• Add to the oil phase or anhydrous wax phase and heat until fully melted and uniform.
• Typical processing temperature is around 60-75 °C, depending on the full wax/oil blend.
• Avoid unnecessarily long high-temperature holding, especially with volatile oils, pigments, antioxidants, fragrance, or heat-sensitive materials.
• For emulsions, melt into the oil phase before emulsification; do not add dry pellets directly into a finished emulsion.
• For pencils, sticks, and mascara systems, screen hardness and pay-off with the selected hard waxes and oils because this wax softens the network and may reduce high-temperature resistance if used too high.

Product Characteristics

Appearance: off-white pellets; soft natural wax; slight characteristic wax odor.

Solubility: insoluble in water. Melt into oils, esters, hydrocarbons, and other lipophilic phases; dispersible in emulsions after proper oil-phase melting and emulsification.

Storage: store tightly closed at room temperature, protected from heat, light, and contamination.