AMSilk starts world­wide dis­tri­bu­tion of Spidersilk as Cos­met­ic Ingredient

„Most products advert­ising with the word ​‚silk’ only con­tain hydro­lyzed pro­tein which has been cut into pieces and thus lost almost all of the func­tion and bene­fits of nat­ur­al silk,“ says Dr. Ute Slotta, who has developed the Spidersilk for­mu­la­tions. ​„With our product we can now offer a truly func­tion­al silk for­mu­la­tion to cos­met­ic com­pan­ies.” Spidersilk adds smooth­ness and mois­ture man­age­ment to the skin, leav­ing a silky feel­ing. For­mu­la­tions using Spidersilk microbeads make the skin appear softer. ​“We are excited to have our pro­duc­tion now at a point where we can sup­ply the cos­met­ic industry with unique and func­tion­al new ingredi­ents,” says Dr. Lin Roe­mer, co-founder and Head of Research and Devel­op­ment at AMSilk. Besides sup­ply­ing raw mater­i­als to cos­met­ic man­u­fac­tur­ers, AMSilk is also test­ing a concept study with­in the European Uni­on for spe­cial cos­met­ic products under www​.spidersilk​.info. Spidersilk is avail­able as a powder, microbeads, and hydro­gel. For sampling and product prices con­tact sales(at)amsilk.com. For tech­nic­al details you can down­load the pdf-file at the right side.

About AMSilk

Spider silk has attrac­ted man’s interest for thou­sands of years, mainly due to its tough­ness and elasti­city. The silk is biocom­pat­ible and can be used in for­mu­la­tions for spe­cial­ized coat­ings, films, non­wovens and in phar­ma­ceut­ic­als. Spider silk has evolved over mil­lions of years res­ult­ing in a com­bin­a­tion of prop­er­ties that far exceed any man-made mater­i­al. AMSilk has developed a pro­pri­et­ary pro­cess for pro­du­cing spider silk on an indus­tri­al scale. AMSilk was foun­ded in 2008 and is loc­ated at the IZB in Planegg near Munich. AMSilk’s investors are MIG Funds and AT New­tec, Munich. Pro­jects are par­tially fun­ded through grants from the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Research and the Bav­ari­an Min­istry of Eco­nom­ic Affairs, Infra­struc­ture, Trans­port and Tech­no­logy with pro­ject man­age­ment provided by the PTJ and VDI. AMSilk and Bios­teel are registered trade­marks of AMSilk GmbH, Ger­many. For inform­a­tion vis­it: www​.amsilk​.com Source: AMSilk GmbH