Consumers demand cutting-edge high-performance products that are also value driven. Our experienced technical team helps our clients profit from that demand.

Essentials focuses on specialty ingredients for the cosmetic, personal care, home care, pet care, air care and HI&I markets. Our growing portfolio includes: high-tech ingredients used in anti-aging, anti-wrinkle, anti-inflammatory, skin lightening, tanning and moisturizing formulations. Essentials also carries a wide range of emollients, humectants, natural colors, specialty effect pigments, essential oils and fragrances.

Under Essentials is Fragrance West, the west coast's only fully operational fragrance laboratory and manufacturing facility. Fragrance West helps bridge the needs of local manufacturers while exposing our suppliers to a stream of new opportunities generated from the combined Essentials/Fragrance West customer base.

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Roger Clemens, Cecilia Chavez, Deborah Meltzer, Chris Pierson

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Roger Thomas, Arsine Aboolian, Christina Fiduccia, Ilbra Khenansho, Claudia Hinman