NanoBase™ · Cream Architecture
NanoBase™ Luxe.
The cream-class member of the family. Luxe is a fluid, fully modular tri-domain nano-colloidal architecture — not a finished cream — engineered at ~185 nm and built to absorb your own oil phase downstream. You add up to 18% oil and roughly 5% peptide by simple room-temperature mixing, and the architecture self-partitions them into the domains it already holds.
Cream architecture
~55% typical use
Absorbs your oil phase
Any CM can build on it
At a glance
~185 nmEngineered mean particle size, DLS-confirmed
pH 5.7–6.0Working window; 5.85 nominal
~18% oilDownstream load it self-partitions
~55%Typical use level in the finished cream
How it holds
The Classic platform, built for oil.
Luxe runs the same electrostatically stabilised architecture as Classic — the same anionic interfacial wall, the same domain structure, the same process and order — with three deliberate changes: a substantially larger micellar reserve, a heavier steric brush, and an emollient ester incorporated during processing rather than stirred in afterwards. That is what lets a fluid architecture absorb an 18% oil load downstream without a surfactant being added to catch it.
NE
Nanoemulsion domain
Enlarged lipid capacity. This is the domain that takes most of the oil you add downstream.
NL
Nanoliposomal domain
Bilayer organisation, carried at Classic strength. Ample headroom for Luxe's lighter ~5% peptide load.
NM
Nanomicellar reserve
Four times the Classic reserve. The buffer that catches your added oil and keeps the system from stratifying.
Why a fully modular architecture makes a better cream
✕Conventional route: emulsify your own cream from scratch with heat and high shear
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✓Add your oil to an architecture that already has somewhere to put it
✕Conventional route: a pre-made cream you can only dilute, not build on
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✓Texture is yours to set — the architecture does not dictate the finished feel
✕Conventional route: added surfactant to hold the extra oil
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✓The micellar reserve is already in the architecture — add none
✕Conventional route: droplet size drifts with every scale-up
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✓~185 nm engineered upstream, confirmed by DLS at QC
Across the lineage Luxe reads tighter than Classic at every scattering angle — a consequence of its larger zero-solubility trap load, which suppresses the coarse tail that governs shelf life.
Specification
What Luxe is built to.
Characterised by multi-angle Dynamic Light Scattering before release, with a size-hold check across the first day rather than a single point measurement.
~185 nm
Engineered mean particle size
DLS
Multi-angle, plus a mandatory size-hold interval
5.85
Nominal pH; working floor 5.7
~55%
Typical use level in a finished cream
Parameter
NanoBase™ Luxe
Notes
Formulation class
Fully modular tri-domain nano-colloidal architecture
Cream class. Fluid, not a finished cream
Stabilisation
Engineered interfacial charge
Same wall as Classic, at full strength
Downstream oil load
Supports ~15–18%
Self-partitions; no added surfactant needed
Downstream peptide load
Supports ~5%
Absorbed by the liposomal domain
Water phase
Built in
Never a need for added water in formulation
Emollient
Built in during processing
Incorporated upstream, not post-added
Processing downstream
Gentle mixing, 22–25 °C
No homogeniser, no sonication, no heat
Shear stability
Up to 12,000 rpm
Headroom for standard production equipment
Preservation
Non-ionic system
Phenoxyethanol level held under the Clean at Sephora cap
Characterisation is performed under controlled production conditions. Figures describe the engineered architecture itself; finished-product performance depends on the formula built on top of it.
Measured, not asserted
The instrument record.
NanoBase™ is engineered to a platform target of ~185 nm, and every batch is then characterised individually by Dynamic Light Scattering before release. Below is an actual analyser record from a Luxe batch — the raw instrument output, not a redrawn chart.
186.2 nmZ-average for this batch (± 0.86)
0.067Polydispersity index (± 0.027)
UnimodalSingle population across three repeats
90.0°Scattering angle, aqueous diluent at 25 °C
Individual repeats: 187.5 / 185.5 / 185.8 nm. At 0.067 the polydispersity index sits well inside the 0.20 threshold for a narrow distribution and inside the 0.10 mark generally treated as monodisperse — Luxe reads tighter than Classic at every scattering angle, a consequence of its larger zero-solubility trap load. Full batch documentation is available under NDA for qualified development programmes.
How you use it
Your cream, built cold.
Luxe arrives fluid. The body of the finished product comes from what you add, not from what we ship — which is why the texture is yours to set, and why any contract manufacturer can run it.
01
Start with the architecture
Luxe goes in at roughly 55% of your finished cream. The water phase is built in, so there is never a need to add water.
02
Add your oil phase
Up to about 18% of your own oils, butters and lipophilic actives. Room temperature. No emulsifier, no heat.
03
Add your actives and texture
Around 5% peptide, plus humectants, thickeners and sensory modifiers to reach the feel you want.
04
Let it partition, then fill
Gentle mixing distributes everything into the existing domains. Confirm pH sits at or above 5.7 and fill.
MANUFACTURE ANYWHERE
Any contract manufacturer can build your cream on Luxe.
The architecture is fully modular and arrives already built, so your CM never has to make it. No nano equipment, no sonication, no tech transfer, no specialist training — the whole downstream process runs on the room-temperature mixing equipment every contract manufacturer already owns. Bring your own CM or we will introduce you to one. You own the formula and the SDS either way.
Compatibility
What it takes, and what it does not.
Works with
Designed for
- Botanical oils, butters and lipophilic actives
- Peptides and peptide complexes
- Antioxidants and vitamin systems
- Humectants and polyol systems
- Sensory modifiers and texture agents
- Barrier-support lipid blends
Daily moisturisers
Cushioned feel without the usual trade-off against active delivery.
Night creams
Higher lipid loads carried inside a structured matrix.
Barrier-support systems
Lipid blends organised rather than merely suspended.
Rich eye and neck
Small-format richness at controlled particle size.
Prestige textures
Sensory profile set downstream to match your brand signature.
Clean-market lines
Non-ionic preservation compatible with clean retailer standards.
Your cream, on architecture.
Tell us the texture and the actives. We will show you what it looks like engineered on Luxe.
Questions? team@pensivebeauty.com