Products in Cleaning Ingredients

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.

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.

BTC® 824 is a quaternary suitable for a wide array of applications, including institutional and industrial cleaning, water treatment, gas and oil drilling muds and packer fluids, gas and oil recovery injection water systems, gas and oil fracturing fluid systems, and wood preservation. This is a kosher-certified product.

STEPFAC™ 8171 is an acid form of phosphate ester that excels as a hydrotrope for nonionic surfactants in alkali cleaners, particularly in high-electrolyte systems. It serves diverse functions, including dispersing, acting as a textile antistatic agent, emulsifying, adjuvanting, and wetting agents. Its applications span agriculture, metalworking, and textiles.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40 stands as an anionic surfactant that offers remarkable viscosity, foam characteristics, and mildness. This makes it an excellent candidate for an array of hi&i cleaning and personal care applications, as well as applications in agriculture formulations and construction products like concrete bases, firefighting foams, and dust control.

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.

STEPOSOL® C-48 is a naturally-derived, biodegradable solvent with a methyl ester composition. It's an eco-friendly option for various applications in households, industries, and institutions, serving as a substitute or co-solvent for a range of solvents. One of its notable features is its high solvency.

STEPWET® DOS 70 functions as a potent wetting agent for aqueous systems and mineral dispersions. STEPWET® DOS 70 also serves as an emulsifying agent for oil-in-water emulsions. Its applications encompass emulsion polymerization and agriculture, and its production is centered in Europe.

NINOL® CMP is a prilled nonionic surfactant based on coconut mea amide, providing foam-boosting, stabilization, and viscosity-building properties. Its applications span personal care products like shampoos, bath products, and liquid dish soaps, as well as laundry detergents, metalworking fluids, cutting fluids, and drawing compounds.

BIO-SOFT® N1-3 is a c11 linear alcohol ethoxylate with a low hlb value, offering emulsification, low foam, detergency, and wetting properties. Its versatility shines in oil-in-water formulations, making it suitable for textiles, automatic dishwashing detergents, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning.

STEPOSOL® MET-10U is a unique unsaturated di-substituted amide crafted from renewable sources through nobel prize-winning metathesis technology. With attributes like rapid soil-penetrating kinetics, excellent solvency, heat and hydrolytic stability, and low voc content, it finds its place in various applications, including agriculture and coatings.

STEPANQUAT® 8188 operates as a dialkyl quat, functioning as a corrosion inhibitor. Its applications encompass hard surface cleaners, spanning both dilutable and ready-to-use formulations. It serves the markets of home care, institutional, and industrial cleaning. The product is also biodegradable.

BIO-SOFT® LD-95 is a liquid detergent concentrate renowned for its exceptional wetting, foaming, and detergent properties. Its applications span dishwashing detergents, rug shampoos, textile scouring, vehicle cleaning, and fine fabric detergents. Its versatility is highlighted by the ability to dilute it with water to achieve different solid levels in dishwashing detergents.

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.

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.

STEPFAC™ 8181 K is an aqueous solution of an alkyl polyethoxyethanol phosphate ester, specifically in the potassium salt form. Its functions include acting as a compatibility agent in high-electrolyte systems and a dispersant in water-based systems. It promotes harmony between various components in formulations with high electrolyte content and aids in the dispersion and stabilization of particles or ingredients in water-based systems.

ONYXIDE® 200 is a highly active bacteriocide and fungicide. It is a preservative for use in metalworking cutting fluids, gas and oil drilling muds and packer fluids, oil field drilling, completion and fracturing fluids, industrial adhesives, emulsions, and inks (non-food use).

BIO-SOFT® D-62 LT presents as a 55% active slurry that includes the sodium salt of linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid. It excels in high foaming, fast wetting, and emulsification properties, making it suitable for cleaning formulations requiring foam. It aligns with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.Org, akin to bio-soft® d-40.

STEPANOL® WA-EXTRA is an anionic surfactant notable for its excellent foaming and viscosity characteristics. It's utilized in personal care and detergent formulations, spanning shampoo, hand soap, bath products, light-duty liquids, and fine fabric wash. It's also employed as a textile scouring and foaming additive in industrial contexts.

MAKON® 17R4 stands as a nonionic reverse eo/po block copolymer that exhibits fast-breaking, low foaming, defoaming properties, and strong detergency. Its applicability spans numerous markets, from industrial and institutional to pulp and paper and textiles. It can be utilized in metalworking fluids, dispersants, industrial lubricants, agricultural pesticide formulations, and low foaming detergents. Like other products in the makon® line, it is a low ash product.

BIO-TERGE® PAS-8S is a low-foaming anionic surfactant with excellent coupling and wetting properties. Its versatility shines in formulating hi&i cleaners, covering areas like hard surface cleaning, carpet cleaning, machine dishwashing, and glass cleaning. Its compliance with the u.S. Epa safer choice program and cleangredients.Org adds to its appeal.

STEOL® CS-225 is a low-active 2-mol sodium laureth sulfate with strong wetting, foaming, and detergent characteristics. It's employed in shampoos, body washes, cleansing products, liquid hand wash formulations, and even textile applications. This mild anionic surfactant is widely utilized in mexico, central america, and south america.

STEPOSOL® C-42 is a blend of naturally-derived methyl esters, specifically methyl laurate and methyl myristate. This biodegradable solvent STEPOSOL® C-42 finds its place in various household, industrial, and institutional applications, serving as a replacement or co-solvent in textiles, among other contexts.

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%.

STEPANATE® SPCS 40 is an anionic surfactant specifically designed for use in liquid detergents, heavy-duty cleaning agents, wax stripping formulations, and dishwashing detergents. It functions as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. Belonging to the chemical group of hydrotropic sulfonates, this product is kosher-certified.

BTC® 885 is a quaternary for formulation into a wide variety of institutional and industrial cleaning applications, including water treatment, gas and oil drilling muds and packer fluids, gas and oil recovery injection water systems, gas and oil fracturing fluid systems, and wood preservation. This biocidal active is associated with a u.S. Epa-registered end-use formulation that meets the criteria for applications against emerging viral pathogens. End-use formulations meeting this criteria may be considered for use as hard surface disinfectants against sars-cov-2, the novel coronavirus that causes the disease covid-19. The product is kosher-certified.

STEPFAC™ 8181 PT3 is an ethoxylated phosphate ester widely used in various agricultural applications. Its functions span agrochemical emulsifiers, dispersants, adjuvants, and wetting agents. With applications in concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), soluble concentrates (sl), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), and tank mix adjuvants, it caters to home care and industrial products.

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.

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.

STEOL® OS-370 ULTRA is mild with excellent detergent and foaming properties in hard and soft water and is compatible with other anionics, nonionics, and alkaline builders. STEOL OS-370 ULTRA provides improved mildness over sodium lauryl sulfate without sacrificing critical performance attributes, such as foaming and viscosity response.

STEPOSOL® CA-207 is an anionic surfactant providing maximum foaming power in hard and soft water, brine solutions, and in the presence of oil. Steposol ca-207 is a unique surfactant developed to provide maximum foaming power in soft and hard water, fresh water, and saturated brine solutions. Steposol ca-207 also foams in the presence of oils or high concentrations of polyvalent cations, such as calcium and magnesium. The bubble structure tends to be denser and of higher viscosity than that produced by other foaming surfactants. A low cloud point makes it a logical choice for cold climates.

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.

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.

BIO-SOFT® N91-6 is a c9-11 linear alcohol ethoxylate with a low pour point and high hlb, excelling in fast wetting, moderate foam, emulsification, and detergency. Applications include laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning. It satisfies the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

STEPWET® DOS 70-PG stands out as an exceptional wetting agent, showcasing impressive performance even at low concentrations in mineral dispersions and aqueous systems. It boasts multiple functions, such as being a latex frothing agent, emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent, with particular effectiveness in emulsifying oil-in-water emulsions in the emulsion polymerization, textile, and agricultural industries.