Directors' Dealings

CRODA INTERNATIONAL PLC
17 August 1999


Croda International Plc announces that the Trustee of the Croda International
Plc Employee Benefit Trust ('the Trust') acquired on 17 August 1999 340,000
ordinary shares in the company for the purposes of the Trust at a price of
340p per share.  It is intended that these shares will be used to satisfy
exercises of options under the company's Executive Option Scheme in respect of
employees and directors.  The directors, in their capacity as potential
beneficiaries under the Trust, are deemed to have acquired an interest in
these shares.  Directors of Croda have options over such shares as follows:

Name                  No. of shares

K G G Hopkins         160,000
A R Fenney            130,000
M Humphrey            260,000
G D Bull              175,000
B M Richmond          150,000

Following this transaction 2,320,000 ordinary shares are held by the Trustee.