Active Textiles is about combining Cognis' excellence in cosmetics with its deep understanding of textiles. In effect: Active Textiles is bringing Cognis' two greatest strengths together to provide innovative products for the markets of today and tomorrow.

Ideas from Cognis have won great acclaim and trust through the years from leading manufacturers of cosmetics, care products, shampoos and anti-ageing formulas. All of them value our combination of high performance and natural based ingredients. For our formulations and active substances we use natural based, sustainable ingredients - of which oils and fats from coconuts and palm kernels are the primary source. This ensures that Cognis products are highly effective. In fact, we pay particular attention to the user experience - making our products sensuous to apply, whether it be in a lotion or a bath. We also subject all of our products to intensive test procedures, measuring not only the functional success but also the end-user's enjoyment of the product.

Our nature-based high performance chemicals are used where efficiency, wellbeing and safety play a key role - in cosmetics, foodstuffs, pharmaceutical products and industrial production.

It is for these reasons that we have - for decades - been one of the leading manufacturers of process aiding materials in the textile industry. We offer products and system solutions for every step in the textile manufacturing process, from high performance spin preparations and smoothing all the way to finishing. As a result, our customers benefit from reliable processes, increased productivity, improved efficiency and genuine cost benefits.

In fact, decades of experience have made us what we are today: experts in technology, innovative specialist chemistry and marketing concepts. The culmination of that: Active Textiles.