Our Story

At 3e, we’re a team of passionate scientists and marketers who have dedicated years to a compelling nanoencapsulation project at A*STAR. Recognizing the potential of this platform technology across diverse industries, from cosmetics to insect repellents and even drug delivery, we set out on a journey fuelled by intuition and strong industry partnerships.

With unwavering support, we spun off from A*STAR to establish Threessentials and in 2023, we were awarded the Startup SG Tech POV grant by Enterprise Singapore, marking a pivotal moment in our history.

Threessentials specializes in producing sustainable, biodegradable polymers for encapsulating active ingredients at a submicron scale. Our mission is to address the challenges faced by formulators in creating the perfect product, utilized across various sectors including cosmetics, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and beyond.

We are driven by values

Our mantra is Efficacy, Simplicity and Sustainability.

In all our endeavours, we prioritize enhancing the efficacy of our customers’ products through our proprietary nanoencapsulation methods, employing straightforward processes with minimal & no harmful chemicals. We are committed to providing sustainable solutions that minimize environmental impact to the greatest extent possible.

Jan teamed up with two scientist co-founders, Parijat & Praveen, from A*STAR, to address this issue. They discovered an eco-friendly way to produce a biodegradable polymer, which can uniformly disperse cosmetic active ingredients & essential oils in water with superb stability and controlled-release properties.

This solves the problem of needing alcohol or surfactants to incorporate these actives (actives are functional ingredients that are typically water-immiscible) in water, which can be skin-irritating and deplete natural skin oils.

One key application would be in the field of perfumery where mainstream perfumes are created by dissolving up to about 30% of fragrance content in alcohol base. To be alcohol-free, some manufacturers may opt to dissolve the fragrance content in oil (too oily) or they would use surfactants to incorporate a much smaller amount of fragrance (typically up to 5% max) in water. Imagine if they could incorporate the same high amount of fragrance content (up to 30%) in water without any alcohol nor surfactants!

This leads to our creation of Misthree’s AquaScentz natural essential oil fragrance for total wellbeing.

AquaScentz series is just the birth of our new concept. We are planning that in future, our customers are not only spraying perfumes on their body but these scents would also contain cosmetic active ingredients that, for example, can provide anti-aging, moisturizing, skin brightening or other effects.

Our Values

Efficacy

Simplicity

Sustainability

OUR CO-FOUNDERS

Jan Goh

Business Strategist

Parijat

Product Strategist

Praveen

Innovation Strategist