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About Us

Custom Ingredients LLC is committed to the development of specialty chemical blends, high quality natural oils, polymers and extracts. We tailor our products to customer needs, optimal performance, and superior batch-to-batch consistency. Our staff of technically trained sales consultants are 100% degreed scientists. We also offer an in-house applications lab to provide excellent starting points for utilizing our products in customer applications.

Since we opened our doors in 1995, our primary goal has been to satisfy the need of customers who desire custom and optimized ingredients not found in the marketplace. Initially, we started out with 3 products including a shampoo concentrate that became the base for an entire line of pet care products. Today, the shampoo accompanies over 200 other products, with keen focus on our CustoBlend®, CustoPoly® , Phytol™ and CustoCide® lines.

Founded by Cathy Ayer Clark, Custom Ingredients LLC has a ‘customer-centric’ approach to customer service offering superior quality surfactants, surfactants blends, natural oils, polymers and special ingredients for the cosmetic and industrial markets. Our facility is a certified USDA organic handler and processor. Our worldwide resources can source raw materials from around the globe and store it convenient to you.

Custom Ingredients LLC is committed to providing quality products and services to our customers. In pursuit of this goal, we will continually improve our products, processes, and operating systems to enable us to meet customer needs and enhance customer satisfaction, while meeting the needs of our business and maintaining a safe and responsible work environment. Our team ensures the company is compliant with current, applicable regulatory requirements.

Our Products

CustoBlend® specialty blends are custom manufactured blends that allow formulators to incorporate more active ingredients, without the complexity of manufacturing and stocking multiple smaller use items. Most CustoBlend® specialty blends allow the formulator to cold blend ingredients, thus speeding up manufacturing times and lowering costs to market of final production.

Through a wide variety of polymer technology, CustoPoly® products are proven as exceptional thickeners, emulsifiers, suspending agents and stabilizers. CustoPoly® polymers are used at concentrations between 0.5% and 5.0%. They offer the flexibility to develop products with a wide range of flow, emulsifying and rheological properties. CustoPoly® polymers are supplied in easy to use, liquid and powder forms.

By importing directly from our worldwide sources to you, we can offer competitive pricing and consistent quality. Our oils are from renewable resources mindful of the environment. We know the quality you demand. Our oils offer the best in clarity, color, and low odor and are certified to American Oil Chemist Society (AOCS) standards to provide you with a reliable and consistent source. We also offer USDA Organic Certified oils.

We offer a complete line of preservatives and biocides with different modes of action against microorganisms. We also offer several preservative blends that provide broad-spectrum protection with added convenience. We also offer natural preservative alternatives.

Our CustoGaia® herbal extracts and their blends are produced from select dried or fresh herbs. Through maceration in water or other solvents, the active components of the herbs are absorbed into the solvent mixtures. We also supply numerous dry herbal products. Ask us to make you a specialty blend of herbal ingredients.

CustoNatural® are ingredient additives found in Nature. Being derived from fish, meat, fruits, plants or vegetables, these powerful active ingredients were selected for their very active original composition. Prepared using specialized technologies for heightened performance, CustoNatural® help the formulator enhance their formulations’ activity.

CustoSense® oils come from aromatic plant parts. Essential oils are generally extracted by distillation or solvent extractions. They are used as natural perfumes and cosmetics. Interest in essential oils has revived in recent decades, with the popularity of aromatherapy which claims that the specific aromas carried by essential oils have curative effects.

712 Wilson Street, Chester • SC 29706 • P.O. Box 772 • Chester • SC 29706 • 803-377-1213 • sales@custoblend.com

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