products in HI&I Care: Wetting

Stepan Company

MAKON® NF-12

MAKON® NF-12 is a nonionic surfactant renowned for its low foaming characteristics and excellent wetting capabilities. Its versatility is evident in applications like mechanical dishwashing, metal cleaning, spray washing, general-purpose cleaning, emulsion polymerization, textile wetting and scouring, and as an adjuvant for agricultural products.

Stepan Company

MAKON® NF-12 E

MAKON® NF-12 E is a nonionic surfactant valued for its low foaming properties and excellent wetting action. It's employed across applications like mechanical dishwashing, metal cleaning, spray washing, general-purpose cleaning, emulsion polymerization, textile wetting and scouring, and as an adjuvant for agricultural products.

Sasol

MARLIPAL O 13/120

MARLIPAL O13/120 is based on a primary, multibranched C13 alcohol with approx. 12 moles ethylene oxide. It is used in personal care as water-soluble emulsifier. It is applicable for all kinds of liquid personal cleansing products. For documents specific to a region, please contact Sasol using the 'Request Document' button.

Galaxy Surfactants Ltd.

Galaxy™ MW 258

Galaxy™ MW 258 is also known as Alcohols, C12-14, ethoxylated, is a liquid cleaning ingredient categorized as a nonionic surfactant and emulsifier within the fatty acid ethoxylates chemical family. This versatile product is designed to cater to various applications in the HI&I (Household, Industrial, and Institutional) care sectors.

Colonial Chemical

Cola® Cap MA259

Cola®Cap MA259 is a 100% active, low-foaming surfactant that provides excellent product color and chemical stability over a wide pH range. Cola®Cap MA259 offers optimization of detergency, wetting and food soil defoaming characteristics. Cola®Cap MA259 incorporates a capping group that provides unique functionality, greater biodegradability and does not interfere with wetting, detergency or surface activity. It is also structurally suffi cient to provide good food soil defoaming properties. Cola®Cap MA259 develops low foaming properties without the use of propylene oxide capping that potentially could inhibit biodegradation.

Verdant Specialty Solutions

DeTERGE LF-531 Low Foam Alkaline Stable Surfactant

DeTERGE LF-531 Low Foam Alkaline Stable Surfactant designed for use in various cleaning applications. With features that include alkaline stability, effective detergency, and a low foaming profile, it offers versatile performance in a range of formulations. The physical form of DeTERGE LF-531 is a liquid, facilitating ease of handling and incorporation into cleaning formulations. Its low foaming characteristics make it particularly suitable for applications where excessive foam is undesirable.

Verdant Specialty Solutions

DeTROPE CA-90 Corrosion Inhibitor for Aluminum

DeTROPE CA-90 is a 90% active, anionic, mixed amine carboxylate recommended for use as a low foaming hydrotrope in aqueous alkaline systems. It is also functions as a corrosion inhibitor for steel and aluminum in aqueous systems above pH 7.0. This product is 90% DeTROPE CA-100 and 10% DW, which reduces the solidification point to ~35F-40F, therefore making it easier to handle in cooler temperatures.

Verdant Specialty Solutions

DeTROPE SA-45 Sodium Alkanoate

DeTROPE SA-45 is a very low foaming, 45% active sodium alkanoate with multifunctional properties. An excellent hydrotrope and solubilizer for nonionics in a wide variety of cleaners and detergent products. It's also chlorine stable and well suited for mold and mildew cleaners, grout bleaching, laundry formulations, and industrial chlorinated-caustic cleaners.

Verdant Specialty Solutions

DeCORE IMT-100LF Corrosion Inhibitor For Steel

DeCORE IMT-100LF Corrosion Inhibitor For Steel is a versatile solution for I&I cleaning and home care applications. With excellent lubricity and corrosion resistance, it enhances the performance of alkaline cleaners, detergents, and fluids & lubricants, particularly cutting oils and metalworking fluids. This biodegradable product is identified as a carboxylic acid derivative, functioning as a corrosion inhibitor in ferrous and non-ferrous applications.

Croda

ECO Natrasense™ 125 MBAL

ECO Natrasense™ 125 MBAL is a fully bio-based surfactant created through the reaction of 100% bio-based ethylene oxide with a 100% bio-based fatty alcohol. The NatraSense series encompasses hydrophilic and lipophilic products. Specifically, the ECO NatraSense range is engineered to outperform and serve as a substitute for nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs and APEs).

Ariix

Ariix Sodium Xylene Sulfonate 40% Liquid

Stepan Company

MAKON® L61

MAKON® L61 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer known for its low foaming, defoaming, and water-in-oil emulsification attributes. Its versatility spans markets like household, industrial, institutional, agriculture, paints and coatings, metalworking, and textiles. It finds usage in areas such as defoaming, metal cleaning, spray washing, warewashing, general-purpose cleaning, textile wetting and scouring, agricultural adjuvants, and non-foaming emulsions. It is another product within the makon® line, featuring low ash content.

Stepan Company

MAKON® 4

MAKON® 4 is an all-high-active nonionic surfactant with diverse applications, including agriculture, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. Their chemical group is nonylphenol ethoxylates, and they serve as emulsifiers, adjuvants, and wetting agents. This product is kosher-certified.

Stepan Company

BIO-SOFT® N25-9

BIO-SOFT® N25-9 is a c12–15 linear alcohol ethoxylate with a high hlb, offering emulsification, moderate foam, detergency, and excellent wetting. Its high cloud point promotes formulation clarity. This product is commonly used in laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications.

Stepan Company

MAKON® TD-6

MAKON® TD-6 is a nonionic surfactant with applications in a diverse set of agricultural formulations. Like makon® td-18, it can be used as an hlb variable and belongs to the category of alcohol etheroxylates and tridecyl alcohol etheroxylates. Its roles include acting as an emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. This product is kosher-certified.

Stepan Company

BIO-SOFT® N1-7

BIO-SOFT® N1-7 is a c11 linear alcohol ethoxylate delivering fast wetting, moderate to high foam, emulsification abilities, and effective detergency. Its application spans laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning. It meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and cleangredients listing, ensuring environmental and safety compliance.

Stepan Company

MAKON® TD-12

MAKON® TD-12 is a nonionic surfactant that finds its place in a wide array of agricultural formulations. Serving as both an hlb variable and fulfilling roles in emulsification, adjuvant, and wetting, it is certified kosher. Its application spans areas like capsule suspensions (cs), concentrated emulsions (ew), dry cleaning, and emulsifiable concentrates (ec) within the agricultural solutions, home care, and institutional and industrial cleaning markets.

Stepan Company

BIO-SOFT® EC-690

BIO-SOFT® EC-690 is a nonionic surfactant that provides stability in both acidic and alkaline aqueous solutions. It offers moderate and stable foam along with high detergency. Tailored for laundry and various cleaning applications, including household, institutional, and industrial hard surface cleaners, BIO-SOFT® EC-690 complies with the u.S. Safer choice surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

Stepan Company

MAKON® 12

MAKON® 12 functions as a high-active nonionic surfactant of great utility across agricultural applications, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. MAKON® 12's role encompasses being an emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. The product bears kosher certification.

Stepan Company

AMMONYX® DO

AMMONYX® DO is an amphoteric surfactant catering to household and h&i applications. It boasts low and fast-breaking foam properties while contributing to viscosity building. With relevance in the textile industry, AMMONYX® DO is kosher certified, preservative-free, sulfate-free, and eo/po-free (ethylene oxide, propylene oxide).

Stepan Company

MAKON® 8

MAKON® 8 serves similarly to makon® 12, functioning as a high-active nonionic surfactant with versatile applications. Its use spans agricultural applications, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. Just like MAKON® 8's counterpart, it holds kosher certification.

Sasol

ALFONIC 10-8 Ethoxylate

ALFONIC 10-8 Ethoxylate is a nonionic biodegradable derivative of linear primary ALFOL 10 Alcohol.The product is in liquid form at room temperature, is essentially 100% active and has the following structural formula: CH₃(CH₂)₉(OCH₂CH₂)₈OH. ALFONIC 10-8 Ethoxylate can be used in a wide variety of applications, including hard surface cleaning, detergents, industrial and institutional cleaning, and personal care.

Sasol

ALFONIC 1412-7 Ethoxylate

ALFONIC 1412-7 Alcohol Ethoxylate is a biodegradable nonionic derived from linear primary ALFOL 1412-7 Alcohol. It is a clear to slightly hazy liquid. Because it is a low-mole ethoxylate it is sparingly soluble in water but soluble in hydrocarbons. For documents specific to a region, please contact Sasol using the 'Request Document' button.

Catexel Nease

WeylClean® SAS 60

WeylClean® SAS 60 is a secondary alkane sulfonate sodium salt (paraffin sulfonate), which is used in all types of liquid washes and cleaning agents, especially suited for highly concentrated products. It functions as an anionic, biodegradable surfactant for the detergent, chemical-technical, and cosmetic industries.

Colonial Chemical

Suga® Fax D10NC

Suga®Fax D10NC is an ideal starting point for formulators of high-performance industrial cleaners, household cleaners and oilfield cleaners that also feature greener, milder and safer properties. This 100% naturally-derived, mild surfactant has broad regulatory approvals, very mild characteristics for human contact and safe for release in the environment, all while being an effective detergent and hydrotrope. Suga®Fax D10NC is a 100% biobased material as designated by USDA testing protocol. Suga®Fax D10NC is also readily biodegradable (OECD 301B) and presents no damage to aquatic life. The mild properties of Suga®Fax D10NC in eyes and on skin make it very useful in cleaners where human contact may occur with the cleaning product. Suga®Fax D10NC is stable at all pH ranges for extended periods while providing immediate wetting in water. Suga®Fax D10NC can lower the surface tension of 50% and 25% caustic as well as other builder systems, enabling the builder to fully perform in the formulation.Suga®Fax D10NC may be used in household cleaners for hard surface cleaning, oven cleaning, and in extreme clean-up products for pots and pans. It is also suitable for high-performance cleaners in heavy duty industrial applications.

Colonial Chemical

Cola® Teric AP

Cola®Teric AP is a salt-free organophosphate amphoteric that provides hydrotroping properties in high alkaline built systems that are formulated with conventional and capped low foaming nonionics. Cola®Teric AP improves the rinsibility of these systems by providing less streaking and redeposition of soil on the cleaned surface. Cola®Teric AP also enhances the detergency of nonionics. Cola®Teric AP is suited for use in industrial detergent cleaners, such as alkaline metal cleaning, high pressure spray cleaners, alkaline degreasers, scrubbing compounds, acid cleaners, transportation cleaners and various other hard surface detergent formulations. Detergency Enhancement - In alkaline metal cleaning tests, Cola®Teric AP, when mixed at equal activity with all ethoxylated nonionics, provides dramatic improvement of hard surface detergency properties. Blends containing Cola®Teric AP significantly outperformed blends containing similar concentrations of sodium xylene sulfonate.

Croda

Brij™ O5

Brij™ O5 is an ethoxylated natural fatty alcohol based on oleyl alcohol chemistry. This naturally derived surfactant provides various functional benefits such as detergency, wetting, and emulsifying properties. It is suitable for a variety of applications, including fabric and laundry care as well as industrial and institutional cleaning.

Croda

ECO Diversaclean CS

ECO Diversaclean CS is a blend of caustic-stable surfactants, combining an alkyl polyglucoside (APG) surfactant with a potent alcohol alkoxylate. This optimized formulation enhances cleaning and wetting performance beyond what APG alone can achieve, while still maintaining the alkaline stability and environmentally friendly attributes of the sugar-based APG.

Croda

Crosolv™ 30 (EBC Crosolv™ 30)

Crosolv™ 30 is a remarkable low VOC green solvent known for its biodegradability, safety, and environmentally friendly properties. Specifically designed for household and I&I aqueous cleaning formulations, this solvent offers excellent performance against greasy soils even at low use rates of 0.3-3% when combined with non-ionic surfactants. Whether used neat or as a dilutable concentrate with higher surfactant levels, Crosolv™ delivers outstanding cleaning power while maintaining its eco-friendly characteristics.

Stepan Company

BIO-SOFT® EC-600

BIO-SOFT® EC-600 is a nonionic surfactant blend featuring an hlb (hydrophilic-lipophilic balance) value of 10.6. This versatile surfactant finds use in wetting, emulsification, and as a degreasing booster within industrial cleaners, detergents, and paint additives. One of its notable features is its comparison to np-6 (nonylphenol ethoxylate), where bio-soft® n-600 exhibits rapid wetting properties. It effectively replaces nonylphenol ethoxylates as a more environmentally friendly option. Furthermore, it aligns with the standards set by the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen, and its inclusion on cleangredients underscores its commitment to sustainable formulations.

Stepan Company

BIO-SOFT® EC-639

BIO-SOFT® EC-639 is a nonionic surfactant providing stability in aqueous acidic and alkaline solutions, moderate and stable foam, and high detergency. It aligns well with laundry, household, institutional, and industrial hard surface cleaners. The surfactant adheres to the u.S. Epa safer choice surfactant screen and cleangredients listing.

Stepan Company

BIO-SOFT® N23-3

BIO-SOFT® N23-3 is a c12-13 linear alcohol ethoxylate that provides moderate wetting, low foam, emulsification, and detergency. With a low hlb, this product can be used in textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications. The product is kosher-certified and preservative-free.

Stepan Company

BIO-SOFT® N25-7

BIO-SOFT® N25-7 is a c12–15 linear alcohol ethoxylate boasting fast wetting, excellent detergent, and emulsification attributes. Its low interfacial tension and low cmc make it particularly suitable for laundry detergents and prespotters, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning. It adheres to the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

Stepan Company

NINOL® 1301

NINOL® 1301 is a peg-6 coconut dea amide, offering high detergency, viscosity control, and corrosion inhibition. NINOL® 1301 versatile nature makes it useful in various applications, including hard surface cleaners, wax strippers, degreasers, textile processing, cutting fluids, and drawing compounds.

Stepan Company

BIO-SOFT® N23-6.5

BIO-SOFT® N23-6.5 is a c12-13 linear alcohol ethoxylate that provides fast wetting, moderate foam, emulsification, and detergency. This product finds application in laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications. The product is kosher-certified and preservative-free.

Stepan Company

MAKON® DA-6

MAKON® DA-6 is a high-active nonionic surfactant that excels in emulsification, moderate foam generation, detergency, and excellent wetting properties. It has a broad spectrum of applications, including laundry, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, carpet cleaning, hand dishwashing, and institutional and industrial cleaning formulations. Importantly, makon da-6 aligns with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.