Ingredient supply for manufacturers
Water-soluble actives, ready to dose.
Island Nanotech manufactures nano-encapsulated pre-concentrates: cannabinoids, kava, kavain, kratom and nutraceuticals carried in sub-100 nm lipid nanoparticles. They disperse clear in water, hold in suspension over shelf life, and drop straight into your existing process.
- Particle size
- Sub 100 nm
- Active load
- 20%
- Minimum order
- 1 kg
- Catalog actives
- 20
The problem
Most functional actives do not want to be in water.
Cannabinoids, kavalactones, curcumin, CoQ10 and D3 are all strongly lipophilic. Dosed straight into a water-based product they separate, cloud, plate out on the container wall and absorb slowly and inconsistently once swallowed. Formulators spend real money working around that, and still lose most of the active to poor uptake.
What we supply
A carrier that already solved it.
We pre-load the active into a food-grade lipid nanoparticle below 100 nm and ship it as a golden liquid at a standardized 20% load. You add it to your batch at use rate. No homogenizer, no emulsifier system, no process redesign. Blends of multiple actives in a single carrier are available on request.
Catalog
Three product lines
Cannabinoids
Hemp-derived actives, clarified and water dispersible
- THC
- CBD
- CBG
- CBN
Alternative Products
Kava, kavain and kratom in a dosable water-soluble form
- Kava
- Kavain
- Kratom
Nutraceuticals
Vitamins, botanicals, mushrooms and nootropics
- Caffeine
- L-Theanine
- Melatonin
- GABA
- Lion’s Mane
- Reishi
- Cordyceps
- Ashwagandha
- Vitamin D3
- Vitamin K2
- CoQ10
- Curcumin
- Omega-3
Technology
Precision lipid nanoparticles
A lipid nanoparticle is a self-assembling carrier built from food-grade lipids. Driven below 100 nm, the particle stays suspended by Brownian motion rather than settling, passes light instead of scattering it, and presents the active to the gut in a form it can absorb quickly and repeatably.
The same platform runs across every active in our catalog, which is why a formulator can move between cannabinoids, botanicals and vitamins without requalifying a process.
How the process worksScale reference
- Human hair 80,000 nm
- Red blood cell 7,000 nm
- Conventional emulsion 1,000 nm
- Island Nanotech particle Under 100 nm
Bars are drawn to a compressed scale for legibility. Actual ratio of a hair to our particle is roughly 800 to 1.
Beverage program
Or let us put it in the can.
Not every brand wants to run a formulation program. We take a concept from target dose and flavor direction through to a finished, filled and labeled can, on the same carrier platform we sell as an ingredient. Because we make the nano ourselves, formulation problems get solved rather than relayed.
See the program- Custom formulation and bench samples
- Flavor and bitterness masking
- pH and stability verification
- Full panel testing on infused SKUs
- Filling, labeling and casing
Tell us what you are formulating
Send the active, the target dose and the format. We will come back with a specification, a lead time and a price. Samples are available for qualified manufacturers.