Personal Care – WACKER ACADEMY Seminars
The use of WACKER products is indispensable in today’s cosmetics. In our seminars, we dive deep into the topic of personal care and show you the many different applications of our products.


Personal Care in Theory and Practice
In skin-care or hair-care applications, sun screen or color cosmetics: WACKER products are ubiquitous components of personal-care products, and range from high-quality silicones to pyrogenic silicas to innovative cyclodextrins. These products enable highly effective formulations in which they deliver glowing skin, glossy hair, a pleasant fragrance and the ideal level of protection.
Take part in WACKER ACADEMY seminars and learn more about the secrets of beauty and personal-care products. With the right blend of theoretical instruction and hands-on training in our lab, we will show you how to make your product a success. Our qualified instructors will give you a comprehensive overview of our products, their unique properties and their outstanding effects in personal-care applications.
Seminars for Personal Care

Personal Care Advanced Seminar: HDK® – Pyrogenic Silica
Europe (Burghausen) Webinar Distributors
This seminar provides an in-depth understanding of the possibilities that HDK® offers as a performance additive.

Personal Care BELSIL® REG 1103 B a new Hydrophilic Elastomer Gel
Europe (Burghausen) Webinar Distributors
In this webinar we will introduce WACKER’s new generation of silicone elastomer gel, BELSIL® REG 1103 B. We will present its wide application range and the multiple benefits that it delivers. Additionally, we will showcase various formulation examples developed in the different WACKER application labs around the globe.

Personal Care BELSIL® Specialty Products for Consumer Care
South Korea (Pangyo) Instructor-led training Customers
This seminar presents the range of WACKER’s high-quality consumer care products and addresses the unique silicone properties and specialty applications of BELSIL®.

Personal Care BELSIL® eco – Sustainable and Resource-Efficient Silicones for Beauty Care Applications
Europe (Burghausen) Webinar Distributors
In this seminar we will explain the concept behind BELSIL® eco and present our current BELSIL® eco product portfolio. We will also introduce the latest addition to our BELSIL® eco range: BELSIL® eco REG 1102 - the first silicone elastomer gel based on 100% bio-methanol.In addition, we will present selected formulations showcasing our BELSIL® eco silicones and their desired special effects for make-up, skin-care and hair-care applications.Nowadays, sustainability is more than just a good intention – it is part of our global responsibility and corporate strategy.Even more pronounced are sustainable development principles for the cosmetic industry. As public interest in sustainability continues to climb, many cosmetic manufacturers are very actively seeking environmentally friendly ingredients for their products and formulations. With our product group: BELSIL® eco, WACKER in addressing this urgent need.BELSIL® eco is produced using 100% bio-methanol instead of fossil raw materials, making WACKER the world’s first chemical group to offer resource-efficient silicones for the cosmetics industry.BELSIL® eco consists of bio-methanol obtained entirely from renewable raw materials, such as straw, grasses and sugar beet. Certified according to strict criteria, the BELSIL® eco manufacturing process and use of bio raw materials are continuously controlled by TÜV NORD.

Personal Care BELSIL® silicones for facial make-up applications
Europe (Burghausen) Webinar Distributors
In this webinar, we try to explain the most common facial make-up formulation formats and give ideas on which recipes they are based. You will for example learn what is inside a primer, a foundation or a concealer and what are the key performance attributes for such product formats.

Personal Care How to formulate Antipollution Beauty products
Europe (Burghausen) Webinar Distributors
In this webinar we want to give some ideas how to formulate well balanced antipollution beauty products. We will show formulation examples and highlight how BELSIL® silicones in combination with the antioxidant HTEssence® from WACKER can help to improve these product formats.

Personal Care Personal Care in Pandemic Times and Beyond
Europe (Burghausen) Webinar Distributors
The current pandemic situation is influencing our daily life. We all live now in a new reality of home office, physical distancing, wearing masks. Of course, this has also a big impact on consumers purchase behavior across personal care and beauty products.

Personal Care Silicone Applications for Skin Care
China (Shanghai) Instructor-led training Distributors, Customers
This course will introduce application mechanisms and models for silicones in skin-care products, including masks, emulsions, creams and serum products. Participants will also be introduced to test methods and processes, standards, formulation suggestions.

Personal Care Silicones in Hair Care
Southeast Asia (Singapore) Instructor-led training Distributors, Customers
This seminar will introduce participants to the significance of silicone chemistry and to the mode of action of silicones in hair-care applications

Personal Care Silicones in Hair Care
China (Shanghai) Instructor-led training Distributors, Customers
This course will introduce application mechanisms and models for silicone in hair-care products, including shampoo, hair conditioner, styling products and hair tail oil. Participants will also be introduced to test methods, standards, formulation suggestions and testing.

Personal Care Silicones in Personal Care
USA (Adrian, Allentown, Dalton) Instructor-led training Distributors, Customers
This course will show you how to improve your beauty products with BELSIL® silicones.

Personal Care Solids & Concentrates – How to Formulate Waterless Beauty Products
Europe (Burghausen) Webinar Distributors
Water is found in some 80% of all cosmetic products. A closer look at the list of ingredients will show you that in most cases, water is the first thing mentioned, i.e. water is usually the main ingredient.There are sound reasons for this. Water is extremely cost-effective and an excellent solvent for a great many ingredients. It also gives formulations a light and fresh feel.This runs counter to the current trend for waterless products. These formulations are supplied either as a solid or as a concentrate and do not require any water.A major advantage of solid cosmetics is that they are seen as being more environmentally compatible. Thanks to their solid consistency, you can either do without plastic packaging entirely or you can greatly reduce the amount needed, unlike with liquid products. Another positive environmental aspect is that solid or highly concentrated cosmetics are lighter in weight and are therefore easier to transport.There are also various technical factors that speak in favor of solids and concentrates, however. A formulation that contains water always runs the risk of microbiological contamination. That is why preservatives are added to keep the formulation totally hygienic. Despite their many benefits, some of these preservatives are the subject of heated debate, especially as regards their potential skin-sensitizing action. Waterless cosmetic formulations, in contrast, often do not need any preservatives whatsoever.Yet from the point of view of cosmetics manufacturers, cosmetic solids and concentrates pose a real challenge. The product form is not at all new, though. Take the example of solid soap, which has been in use for thousands of years. Of course, consumer demands have changed enormously over time. Today, we expect a solid cosmetic formulation to have the same properties as their water-containing counterparts.A solid shampoo must therefore disperse quickly and form a dense foam while you wash your hair. After the shampoo has been applied, your hair should feel nice, be easy to comb and look naturally glossy. What’s more, there shouldn’t be any annoying soap marks left in the bathroom.A solid body-lotion stick should glide gently over your skin while applying a defined amount of lotion. The product should be easy to spread over the skin and have a nurturing and moisturizing effect. The stick itself should in turn be very stable and exhibit consistent properties over a broad range of temperatures.For this reason, there is a precisely defined requirements profile for each grade of cosmetic solid and concentrate.We will use this online seminar to offer you product recommendations and formulation advice regarding technical support. Based on specific formulation examples developed in a wide range of WACKER laboratories around the world, the seminar aims to give you a grounding in discussing the “Solids & Concentrates” trend with customers.

Personal Care Technical Service Course: Personal Care
Europe (Burghausen) Instructor-led training Distributors, Customers
This seminar provides an interesting overview of the possibilities of silicones in personal care applications.

Personal Care WACKER Silicones in Hair Care
Russia (Moscow) Instructor-led training Distributors, Customers
This course focuses on the structure of silicones used in hair-care applications, and discusses products, technology recommendations and test methods.

Personal Care WACKER Silicones in Skin Care
Russia (Moscow) Instructor-led training Distributors, Customers
Learn more about silicones in skin care, the structure of silicones and technology recommendations, and receive practical training in the lab.