Cosmetics Industry

Cosmetics go back as far as humankind. Findings have shown that women have painted and “decorated” their faces with color since primitive times.
A pathbreaking role in cosmetics, bodily cleanliness and hygiene can be attributed to the ancient Egyptians. There, already over 4000 years ago, make-up, fats, ointments and scents were applied in conformance with societal conventions and trends encouraging bodily cleanliness and hygiene.
The Greeks and Romans adopted many of these customs from the Egyptians; they anointed themselves with olive and almond oil, and Roman women even bathed in donkey and goat milk. 
In the 19th century, the manufacture of purified wool grease gave rise to modern cosmetics.

Currently 500,000 tons of cosmetic products are manufactured annually in Germany alone. This includes bubble baths and shower gels; toothpastes; a great variety of creams and lotions; shampoos; lipsticks; sunscreens; hand, foot and nail care products; soaps; and moor and fango mud, to name just a few.
The ingredients used in the production of cosmetics are many and varied; over 7000 different substances are currently used within the European Union.
The EU’s “INCI List” (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) is the corresponding body of regulations. Some of these ingredients and categories of ingredients include: water, emulsifying agents, thickening agents, plant oils, petroleum-based products, essential oils, fresh plant extracts, tinctures, hydrosols, alcohols, tensides, and even some chemical ingredients with abrasive, bleaching or antimicrobial effects. 

The versatile application possibilities for NEMO® Pumps have made them indispensable in the cosmetic industry.

Some examples are:
- the conveying of plant-derived materials 
- the conveying of highly viscous healing earth clay
- the gentle, low-pulsation conveying of any kind of ingredient, spanning a broad spectrum of chemical and physical characteristics, even abrasive 
- conveying from extremely low-pressure areas (vaporization facilities and reactors)
- residual-free emptying of barrels with highly viscous content with NEMO® Barrel Emptying Pumps
- feeding of heating installations, processing lines and filling stations, even under strict hygienic conditions

NEMO® Pumps have proven themselves in all these types of tasks and are specially configured to the specific requirements of each by the experts at Netzsch Mohnopumpen GmbH.