Products in Performance Additives

MERPOL® A is an alcohol phosphate that offers attributes such as low foam generation, effective wetting, and reliable emulsification. It serves a range of applications, including metal processing, composite handling, printing ink manufacturing, and coatings. Classified within the chemical group of alcohol phosphate esters, its functions encompass being a plastic anti-static agent, pigment dispersant, and textile lubricating agent.

STEPAN® PEARL 2 is a unique anionic/ester surfactant blend designed to impart a pearlescent appearance to personal care products like shampoos, bubble baths, and dishwashing liquids. Unlike traditional methods requiring heat or prolonged processing, the distinctive emulsifier package in STEPAN® PEARL 2 enables excellent pearlescence through cold blending.

AMPHOSOL® CA is a cocamidopropyl betaine derived from coco-methyl esters. This mild amphoteric surfactant AMPHOSOL® CA serves as a foam booster and viscosity builder in various personal care applications, as well as specialty foamer applications, hard surface cleaning, and vehicle care.

STEPFAC™ 8170 is an acid phosphate ester serving as a hydrotrope for nonionic surfactants in alkali cleaners. Its efficacy extends to high-electrolyte systems, making it an asset in applications like agriculture, metalworking, and textiles. This versatile product finds utility in diverse markets, including home care, industrial products, institutional cleaning, and industrial cleaning.

STEPANATE® SXS-E is an anionic surfactant employed in liquid detergents, heavy-duty cleaning products, wax stripping formulations, and dishwashing detergents. It acts as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. This product belongs to the chemical group of hydrotropic sulfonates, serving roles as an emulsifier, adjuvant, and hydrotrope. It's important to note that this product is also kosher-certified.

STEPANTEX® HTS-100 is a diester fabric softener quaternary in a nonionic system for use in the coating of household and commercial fabric softener sheets. This solid cationic surfactant offers excellent controlled release, good rewetting, and static reduction. The product is biobased.

NINOL® C-5 is a liquid nonionic surfactant categorized as a peg-6 coconut dea amide with properties that enhance foam and viscosity. It plays a role in personal care products like shampoos and bath products and extends its utility to industrial applications, including composite processing.

STEPANTEX® ST-90 is a diester fabric softener quaternary that excels in providing softening, antistatic, and rewetting properties. It's suitable for household and institutional fabric softeners, as well as textile softening additives, with the capacity to create formulations ranging from 3% to 20% solid dispersions.

AMPHOSOL® LB is a mild amphoteric surfactant derived from narrow-cut methyl esters. This lauramidopropyl betaine is known for its capabilities in foam boosting and viscosity building, finding applications across personal care, home care, and industrial products. Its versatility spans uses such as 2-in-1 shampoo, baby care, body scrubs, body wash, carwash automatic, and carwash hand.

AMPHOSOL® DM-X is a mild amphoteric surfactant derived from C12–14 alkyl dimethyl amine, serving as a primary or secondary surfactant. It boosts foam, builds viscosity, and acts as an antistatic agent. Compatible with anionic, nonionic, and cationic systems, it finds use in various personal care applications.

AMPHOSOL® LB-HP is a lauramidopropyl betaine used in a variety of applications for personal care, home care, and institutional and industrial cleaning. This amphoteric surfactant can be used to boost foam and build viscosity in formulations. It is preserved with excess alkalinity, which allows the formulator flexibility when choosing a preservative for their finished formulation.

AMMONYX® 4 operates as a substantive cationic quaternary, commonly employed in conditioners, cream rinses, mousses, and lotions. Its primary functions are enhancing skin feel and serving as a textile antistatic agent. It finds applications in 2-in-1 shampoos, body washes, detanglers, facial cleansers, hair conditioners, hair styling, and hair and scalp treatments. Its presence spans across the industrial products and personal care markets.

STEPANTEX® VM 85 G is a cationic surfactant suited for the formulation of household and industrial fabric softeners from 3% viscous to 20% fluid-active concentrations. This ester quat can also be used in many other applications, such as metal cleaning and polishing compounds, cutting oils, textile auxiliaries, leather conditioners, water repellents, shoe polishes, emulsifiers, paper treatment, and clays.

STEPANATE® SCS-40 is a versatile solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant that is applicable in heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, dishwashing detergents, and the oil field and metalworking sectors. Holding kosher certification, it serves the home care, industrial products, and institutional and industrial cleaning markets.

BTC® 1010 is a quaternary for formulation into antimicrobial products used in a variety of institutional and industrial cleaning applications, water treatment applications, gas and oil drilling muds and packer fluids, gas and oil recovery injection water systems, gas and oil fracturing fluid systems, and wood preservatives. The product is kosher-certified.

NINOL® CAA stands for a naturally derived esthetic enhancer and fragrance solubilizer. Its large hansen solubility sphere enables the solubilization of fragrances and other organic materials at room temperature. Despite its capacity for dissolving, it maintains viscosity and foaming performance. As a dea-free nonionic surfactant, it offers viscosity-building performance and foam stabilization similar to traditional amides and betaines, presenting an effective solution that meets both performance and esthetic needs.

AMMONYX® 4B is a substantive ammonium quaternary used in applications such as hair conditioners, rinses, mousses, creams, and lotions. It fulfills the functions of enhancing skin feel and acting as a textile antistatic agent. It finds relevance in the personal care and industrial product markets.

AMPHOSOL® CG is a 30% active cocamidopropyl betaine derived from coconut oil. This mild amphoteric surfactant is used as a secondary surfactant, foam booster, and viscosity builder in personal care, hard surface care, vehicle care, and foaming specialties. This product is bio-based, naturally derived, plant-derived, and sulfate-free.

STEPFAC™ 8181 stands as an ethoxylated phosphate ester that holds significance across a variety of agricultural applications. It belongs to the chemical group of ethoxylated phosphate esters and phosphate esters, functioning as a dispersant, emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. Its application scope encompasses capsule suspensions (cs), concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), oil in water emulsions (ew), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), and tank mix adjuvants.

DREWPLAST® 154 is a nonionic surfactant that serves as a release agent and antistatic agent for plastics and films. Its chemical group aligns with lauramide dea, and it functions as a textile antistatic agent. Notably, the product is derived from plants and is bio-based.

SO/SAN® 30M is a concentrated quaternary fabric softener and antimicrobial blend designed for use in both the institutional and industrial (i&i) and household markets. This product offers static control and residual self-sanitizing activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative organisms. It falls within the chemical group of cationic blend specialty.

STEPFAC™ 8180 serves as an ethoxylated phosphate ester with a broad spectrum of applications within the agricultural domain. It falls within the chemical group of ethoxylated phosphate ester phosphate ester and fulfills functions as a dispersant, textile antistatic agent, emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. Its versatile usage covers capsule suspensions (cs), concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metal working applications, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), oil in water emulsions (ew), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), tank mix adjuvants, and textile wet processing.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40 HP is an anionic surfactant known for its viscosity, foam characteristics, and mildness. It has applications in various sectors, including cleaning, personal care, agriculture, and construction products. Its preservation strategy involves excess alkalinity, offering flexibility in choosing preservatives. It's in compliance with the u.S. Epa safer choice program and clean ingredients standards.

AMMONYX® MCO serves as an amphoteric surfactant, functioning as a cleansing agent, foam booster, and viscosity builder in personal care and h&i cleaning products. Its roles span 2 in 1 shampoo, automatic dishwashing detergents, body wash, carwash automatic, carwash hand, facial cleansers, fine fabric wash, floor cleaners, and more.

AMPHOSOL® CG-50 is a 37% active form of cocamidopropyl betaine derived from coconut oil. This high-active, mild amphoteric surfactant functions as a secondary surfactant, foam booster, and viscosity builder across personal care products, hard surface cleaning, vehicle care, and specialty foaming applications. It aligns with the surfactant screen of the u.S. Epa safer choice program and is listed on cleangredients.

STEPANTEX® VL 90 A stands as a diester fabric softener quaternary, delivering excellent softening, antistatic, and rewetting properties. This cationic surfactant paste is applicable in household and industrial cleaners and finds a diverse range of applications, including metal cleaning and polishing compounds, cutting oils, textile auxiliaries, leather conditioners, water repellents, shoe polishes, emulsifiers, paper treatment, and clays.

STEPANATE® SCS takes on multiple roles as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. It's used in various applications, including heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, dishwashing detergents, and metalworking. Its chemical group belongs to hydrotropic sulfonates, and it holds kosher certification.

AMPHOSOL® HCA-HP is a mild amphoteric surfactant derived from coco methyl esters, providing foam boosting and viscosity building in a wide range of personal care, hard surface cleaning, and specialty foamer applications. It is preserved with excess alkalinity, which allows the formulator flexibility when choosing a preservative for their finished formulation.

STEPANATE® SXS-30 is an anionic surfactant that serves in various capacities, including liquid detergent, heavy-duty cleaning, wax stripping, dishwashing detergent formulations, and textile applications. Its roles encompass functioning as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. The product has been certified as kosher.

CEDEPHOS FA-600 is the acid form of a complex mixture of mono- and di-phosphate esters based on an aliphatic hydrophobe. This anionic surfactant offers the combination of exceptional alkali solubility with excellent coupling ability for nonionics in liquid formulations. It is used in heavy-duty, alkaline industrial detergent systems, textile wet processing, pulp deresination, and dedusting agents.

AMMONYX® CETAC-30 is a cationic surfactant with its primary application in hair conditioners, hair styling aids, creams, and lotions. Its functions encompass enhancing skin feel and acting as a textile antistatic agent. Its presence spans across the home care, industrial products, institutional and industrial cleaning, and personal care markets. It's worth noting that the product is kosher-certified, preservative-free, and sulfate-free.

STEPANATE® AXS is an anionic surfactant providing hydrotropic/solubilizing and coupling properties. It is used in light-duty cleaners, heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, and dishwashing detergents. STEPANATE® AXS can also be used in agricultural and industrial textile applications. The product is kosher-certified.

STEPANTEX® VT-90 is a diester fabric softener quaternary, providing excellent softening, cold water dispersibility, and good rewetting properties. This cationic surfactant paste can be used to produce up to 25% solid dispersions in household and industrial fabric softeners. The product is biobased.

MAPROSYL® 30-MP is a mild, soap-like detergent renowned for its outstanding wetting and foaming characteristics. MAPROSYL® 30-MP delivers efficient detergency and good rinsing properties, displaying compatibility with anionic, cationic, and nonionic surfactants. This product is particularly suited for apac formulations.

AMPHOSOL® CDB-HP is an enhanced amphoteric surfactant designed for cold processing and easy handling. It functions as a secondary surfactant, contributing to viscosity building and foam boosting across an array of personal care applications. Its flexibility in preservation choice is a valuable feature for formulators.

STEPANTEX® VK 90 is a diester fabric softener quaternary with commendable softening, cold water dispersibility, and rewetting properties. This cationic surfactant paste finds its place in household and industrial fabric softeners and is capable of producing dispersions with solids ranging from 3% to 20%.