Kalaguard® SB | Preservative for Home Care Applications

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Home Care Following Personal Care Preservative Trends Home care is following similar trends as global companies anticipate changes in preservative regulations. Region Europe Category Beauty and personal care Source: Mintel

Drivers for Preservation Change in Home Care Consumer and Regulatory bodies needs are scrutinizing and limiting the preservative pallet Consumer sensitization to isothazolinones, resulting changes to product labeling requirements Formaldehyde Donors Example: DMDM Hydantoin/Bronopol Skin Sensitization and Skin/Eye Irritation MIT/CMIT, MIT Warning: May cause an allergic skin reaction Required Phrase: “Contains [name of sensitizing substance]. May produce allergic reaction.”

Home Care Following Personal Care Preservative Trends Region Europe Category Home Care Source: Mintel

Official World Market Introduction of Alternative Preservative for Products During Storage! Kalaguard® SB: the first and only sodium benzoate good enough to be approved by BPR for Home Care preservation Verbally clarify registration date expected

Benefits of Kalaguard® SB Globally trusted Widely used and trusted in other applications, such as food and personal care Excellent chemical and toxicology profile Green Nature identical Biodegradable Authorized for use with Ecocert, Ecolabel, Nordic Swan, Safer Choice Cost Effective solution and easy to use in manufacturing Efficacious New data suggests broader application and pH range than the industry previously considered

Preserving with Kalaguard® SB Ingredients Wt (%) Water Q.S. Sodium coco-sulfate 1.32% Glycerine 2.50% Xanthan Gum 0.10% Citric acid 1.00% Ingredients Wt (%) Water Q.S. Palm Ester Quat 5% CaCl2 1% 1.7% 0.35% Fabric Softener Neutral Cleaner pH 3 pH 5.0 pH 6.5 pH 7.0 pH 8 Ingredients Wt (%) Water Q.S. Alkyl Polysaccharide 8.0% SLES 16.8% Sodium coco-sulfate 3.1% CaCl2 1.0% Dishwash Liquid All formulations pass European Pharmacopoeia challenge testing  1.4%

Regulatory status 528/2012: Classified by EU commission as low risk substance to be promoted over classical biocides to encourage the use of products with a more favorable environmental or human or animal health profile. Emerald is pursuing biocidal product registration for Kalaguard® SB sodium benzoate for product type 6, scope: entire European Union. Evaluation phase has finalized. Mutual recognition by member states has finalized. Starting May 1st each EU member state will publish the information and provide an authorization number. Earliest expected availability in the market June 2019.

Summary Globally Trusted and Now Available for Home Care Kalaguard® SB makes sodium benzoate available to homecare producers as an economical, effective, consumer friendly preservation option. Sodium benzoate is well known and trusted in the world and now available to the homecare market. Green and Nature Identical Preferred option for sustainable products recognized by Ecocert, Nordic Swan, Ecolabel, and Safer Choice Low eco-toxicity and readily biodegradable Efficacious Fights microbes in a wide variety of home care applications Biocide registration across Europe (Q2 2019)

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