Portfolio Easy Guide

Each Cognis Care Chemicals’ product has been given a rating of up to four green leaves – indicating what proportion of natural, renewable components it contains and how it is processed. These ratings help manufacturers to determine the degree of “greenness” for their finished products:

• Products classified as Cognis Naturals are the “greenest” products, and as such receive the maximum four green leaves. They are derived from 100% natural, renewable feedstocks, which are purified using only water, alcohol, or energy treatment processes.

• The next category is called Cognis Natural Modified, which is indicated with three green leaves. They also come from 100% natural, renewable feedstocks and have been chemically processed using catalysts or other reaction aids.
  
  
• The next two categories are named Cognis Ecohybrids and Cognis Hybrids, indicated with two leaves or one green leaf. Products in these categories are still based on natural, renewable raw materials, combined with structures from synthetic feedstocks by applying chemical processes; the ratio of natural to synthetic C-atoms determines which of the two categories the product is assigned to.

• The final level, called Cognis Synthetics, comprises ingredients based entirely on chemically processed synthetic feedstocks.