The cosmetics industry is undergoing a significant transformation, with a heightened focus on developing clean and sustainable beauty products that incorporate traceable and naturally derived ingredients. As consumers become more knowledgeable about the ingredients they use on their skin, vegetable oils have gained prominence as favored ingredients in cosmetic formulations due to their natural origin and perceived benefits for skin, body and hair care applications. With more than 30 years' experience in premium vegetable oils, Vantage offers a wide and diverse range of traditional and exotic oils extracted from natural plants.
Our premium oils are available in different grades – cosmetic, food, pharma (approved as an excipient) – and in different processing qualities – refined, virgin, and winterized, while meeting diverse customer requirements such as Organic, Kosher, Halal and more.
The EVOIL® product range is formulated to contain specialty oil compositions tailored to meet specific properties and customer needs. Additionally, we collaborate with customers to develop new tailormade products, including unique formulations, stability testing and dermatological testing.
Organic Oils
Organic Oils are produced according to certain standards:
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No pesticides
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No artificial fertilizers
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No growth hormones or antibiotics
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GMO free
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Not irradiated
To certify a product as organic, it must be grown and produced in a manner that adheres to these standards. EcoCert meets IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) accreditation criteria for bodies certifying organic production and processing.
Virgin Oils
Virgin oils are obtained solely under conditions that do not lead to alterations in the oil – by mechanical or other physical means.
These oils have not undergone any treatment other than washing, decantation, centrifugation or filtration.
Virgin quality ensures presence of sterols and other botanical actives present in the original plant species that provide natural skin benefits.
Refined Oils
Refining includes a set of operations from controlling color, odor and oxidation degree of the oil to ensuring removal of certain substances, imparting uniform appearance and removing any non-intrinsic oil smell.
To the greatest extent possible, a refining process preserves tocopherols and prevents chemical changes in the oil’s triacylglycerols.
By removing the minor plant compounds responsible for non-desired organoleptic properties, the output of refining is a vegetable oil with a homogeneous coloration and neutral aroma.
Customized Oil Formulations
Under the tradename EVOIL™ we offer a broad range of formulated vegetable oils in which the basic properties of the oils have been optimized in order to achieve greater functionality and stability.
The EVOIL range includes the line of EVOIL Basics – vegetable oils with equivalent properties of a specific plant – as well as the line of EVOIL Actives – customized oils with a specific composition of active ingredients with proven efficacy – and the line of EVOIL Spa – essential oil-enriched formulations for massage and aromatherapy.
EVOIL Basics have been developed to reproduce the classic fatty acid composition of each specific plant or vegetable oil without sacrificing any of its intrinsic beneficial qualities. The physical characteristics have been carefully designed to create a product with minimal color and odor.
EVOIL Actives is a special line of formulated oils for better cosmetics, specially aimed for a functionality, thus constituting the most fitted lipidic phase for their respective final cosmetic application.