Woodbridge renewable chemistry company P2 Science Inc. (P2) this week rolled out commercial sales of the 24-6TM, a product case containing 24 bottles of sanitizer and 6 bottles of P2 moisturizer.
The new P2 moisturizer product is formulated around the company’s proprietary forest-derived Citropol platform and is designed to obviate the effects on the skin of frequent hand-washing and sanitizer use. The liquid sanitizer is made under an FDA registration.
In a time when hand-washing and the sanitizing of hands and surfaces is being performed more frequently than ever in offices and workplaces, skin care has become an important consideration in individuals’ daily personal-care regimens. For this reason, P2 ensures that any sale or donation of P2 sanitizer is accompanied by the company’s skin-care products, built around the Citropol proprietary bio-derived ingredients, designed and manufactured at P2’s facility in Naugatuck.
Currently the 24-6 is sold only for use by employees of qualified government and non-profit groups operating in the state of Connecticut. Earnings from sales of the 24-6 will help support the P2 pro-bono work with All Our Kids Inc. (AOK) and other Connecticut-based non-profits. P2 is currently supplying AOK with sanitizer to help facilitate safe operation of the non-profit’s child-care facilities.
“We are pleased to be able to help the state of Connecticut get back to work with our new P2 skin-care products,” said P2 CEO Neil Burns in announcing the launch. “We thought it only right to accompany sanitizer with high-performance moisturizer to ensure the best experience for the users.”
The company describes its Citropol platform, introduced commercially by P2 in April, as a new development in the personal-care and cosmetics ingredients market. It is a patented new class of low MW liquid polymers made from terpenes derived from forest vegetation. The products demonstrate an excellent safety profile and typically impart lubricity, shine and moisture retention properties in a wide range of skin- and hair-care products, P2 says.
P2 Science describes itself as a renewable chemistry company. P2 co-founders Paul Anastas and Patrick Foley, worked together at the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. P2 has previously developed and patented green chemistry technologies for converting renewable feedstocks into high-value specialty products.
Investors in P2 include BASF Venture Capital, Xeraya Capital, Elm Street Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Ironwood Capital, HG Ventures and Chanel. The company’s first manufacturing plant, launched in September 2018, produces novel renewable aroma chemicals and cosmetics ingredients.
