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ingredients

Take adventage of these benefits

  • Free mediation of contacts to tried-and-tested exporters with transparent supply chains
  • High-quality products from January to December thanks to suppliers on various continents
  • All companies satisfy the high demands of the European market and are trained on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

High-quality ingredients

Source your ingredients from evaluated exporters

Regardless of whether you require natural ingredients for foods, pharmaceutics or cosmetics: High-quality products are the only way to satisfy the high demands of consumers. It is therefore crucial to find the right suppliers throughout the world. IPD helps you do exactly that. In addition, to make it easier for you to implement the supply chain law, we make sure that our partner companies have short and transparent supply chains without intermediaries.

We know that product certification is becoming increasingly important for companies in Germany and throughout Europe, which is why we give particular attention to this aspect. No matter whether that means ISO standards, organic, HACCP, IFS, BRC or Fairtrade certification: We find reliable and evaluated exporters for you, who meet your requirements, and we mediate direct contacts to them – at no cost at all, of course. We also ensure that all trading partners are familiar with the principles of sustainable business management.

Our wide-ranging offer

  • Essential oils: e.g. of chamomile, patchouli, artemisia, and citrus
  • Extracts: e.g. vanilla, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, various fruits
  • Fatty oils: e.g. shea butter, sacha inchi oil, avocado oil, moringa oil, apricot kernel oil as well as saturated fats from nuts (e.g. Brazil nuts, walnuts)
  • Pulses: e.g. kidney and pinto beans, peas, white beans
  • Coffee and cocoa: e.g. specialty coffee and cocoa (incl. fine flavour cocoa), cocoa derivatives, cocoa butter and cocoa nibs
  • Coconut products: e.g. coconut sugar, coconut water, coconut oil, coconut flakes and rasps
  • Herbs and spices: e.g. basil, thyme, hibiscus, ginger, chamomile, turmeric, nutmeg, cloves, peppermint, senna, vanilla or cinnamon as well as medicinal and aromatic plants
Finding new import sources for natural ingredients

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We assist you in sourcing these or other natural ingredients.

  • Natural colourings: e.g. amaranth, annatto
  • Nuts: e.g. walnuts, almonds, pistachios, peanuts
  • Seeds and grains: e.g. quinoa, amaranth, chia, oil seeds, specialty rice
  • Sweeteners: e.g. coconut flower sugar, panela, yacon syrup, date syrup, honey, kithul
  • Tea: e.g. black and green tea, tea blends, guayusa, dried citrus peels
  • Processed fruit and vegetables: e.g. (sun-)dried, freeze-dried, deep-frozen/individual quick frozen (IQF), pulps, concentrates, preserves
  • Thickening and gelling agents: e.g. carob seeds and derivatives, rice starch

Our Matchmaking events

Meet evaluated suppliers of natural ingredients

incosmetics event

Internationational tradefair for personal care ingredients

in-cosmetics 2025

Amsterdam // 08 - 10 April 2025

SAVE THE DATE: IPD presents reliable producers from Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya,…

International trade fair for confectionery

ISM 2025

Cologne // 02.02. - 05.02.2025

SAVE THE DATE - IPD will be presenting reliable suppliers from its partner countries Ecuador and Colombia at the…

Biofach fair

Trade Fair for Organic Food

Biofach 2025

Nuremberg //  11.02. -14.02.2025

SAVE THE DATE  – Discover the organic potential from our partner countries!  

Under the motto "Organic Sourcing for…

EUROPE’S LARGEST SPECIALTY COFFEE TRADE SHOW

World of Coffee 2025

Geneva //  26.06. - 28.06.2025

IPD presents reliable producers from our partner countries Peru, Ecuador, Tanzania, Colombia, Ethiopia and Indonesia a…

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Natural ingredients from our partner countries

Natural ingredients from (almost) all over the world

Thanks to IPD partners in many countries around the world, you have access to a wide selection of natural ingredients: oils, extracts, herbs, spices, nuts, seeds and much more. Visit our country pages to find out more.

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Product information Prickly Pear Seed Oil

Product Information

Prickly Pear Seed Oil

Prickly pear seed oil - the anti-aging oil from Morocco and Tunisia. Learn more about a very special plant oil obtained from the seeds of the fruit of the prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica). Due to its unique attributes, the oil has been a growing trend in cosmetic products.

Ingredients for cosmetics

Evaluated producers

IPD arranges contact with evaluated manufacturers of high-quality natural ingredients for cosmetics. All suppliers have been visited and carefully checked by IPD experts. 

Fine flavour cocoa

Arriba nacional

Ecuador is the largest cacao producer in Latin America and is also the origin of the cacao variety Arriba Nacional. IPD has identified promising cacao suppliers who offer ethically-sourced and high-quality cacao. We connect you with carefully screened exporters.

Specialty coffee

World of Coffee

Discover the unique variety of speciality coffee with IPD. Take advantage of our extensive network and expertise to find reliable coffee suppliers from Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. Details of our companies can be found in this year's World of Coffee exhibitor brochure.

IPD Guide

Becoming an importer

You're looking to import? To open up new sources of supply? To buy natural ingredients for your production? You don't know where from, from whom, or how exactly? Find out all the details on the most important topics in our guide.

This guide comprises basic information which is useful to those people who would like to establish their first import business in Europe – especially those planning to import from developing countries.

 

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»Producers who reliably supply high-quality raw materials are not easy to find. IPD has introduced us to screened suppliers. This preliminary work saves us time and money. This is especially valuable support in these difficult times when travelling and sourcing is not so easy«

Janna Villatoro Barrera
CEO
H+T Feinkost GmbH
www.ht-feinkost.de

Success Stories

Ecuador

Strong demand for cocoa

Direct trade with small and mediumsized producers can be an alternative to current trade with international companies.

Sri Lanka

Partnership on a level playing field

The perfect match paves the way for innovative products. It gets even better when high-quality raw materials are used.

Your contact
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Charlotte Braquet

Expert Sourcing + Markets

Natural ingredients (Egypt, Madagascar, Peru)

María Paula Gómez

Expert Sourcing + Markets

Natural ingredients (Colombia, Ecuador, South Africa)

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Nicole Schauer

Expert Sourcing + Markets
Natural ingredients (Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania)

Dorra Zairi

Expert Sourcing + Markets

Natural ingredients (Brazil, Morocco)

Fresh produce (Egypt, Morocco)

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Angie Martinez

Expert Sourcing + Markets

Natural Ingredients (Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka)

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Caroline Moraza

Expert Sourcing + Markets

Natural ingredients (Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tunisia, Ukraine)
Fresh Produce (Ukraine)

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Marius Thümmrich

Expert Sourcing + Markets

Sustainable tourism (Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan)

Natural ingredients (Uzbekistan)