Esters of alkoxylated aromatic alcohol and fatty carboxylic acid are provided.
The esters are especially suitable as additives for personal care and cosmetic
products. The preferred esters having an aromatic nucleus, an alkoxy spacer, an
ester carboxylic group, and a fatty alkyl group, in which the aromatic nucleus
and the oxygen atom of the ester carboxylic group are connected to the alkoxy spacer,
and the fatty alkyl group is attached to the carbon atom of the ester carboxylic
group, are also provided. Certain of the esters of alkoxylated aromatic alcohol
and fatty carboxylic acid having certain skin spread factor or viscosity are also provided.