Products in Surfactants & Cleansers

STEPAN-MILD® PCL is a mild, sulfate-free, anionic surfactant blend known for generating high foam and possessing excellent viscosity-building characteristics. It is a versatile ingredient suitable for formulating shampoos, facial cleansers, body washes, bubble baths, and liquid hand soaps. Notably, it is bio-based, naturally derived, plant-derived, and sulfate-free.

STEPANBLEND® ASF is a 39% solids surfactant blend crafted for mild cleansing formulations. It is anticipated to be free from sulfated surfactants, Diethanolamine (DEA), Ethylene Oxide (EO), and preservatives. This blend demonstrates ample foam volume and efficient viscosity response to salt. Offering the benefits of surfactant blends such as cold mixability and ease of handling, STEPANBLEND® ASF finds utility in various liquid cleansing applications, including shampoos, liquid hand soaps and other bath products.

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.

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.

STEPANOL® WA-EXTRA HP is an anionic surfactant providing excellent foaming and viscosity characteristics. It can be utilized in personal care and detergent formulations such as shampoos, hand soaps, bath products, liquid dishwashing, liquid laundry detergents, and fine fabric washes. It is preserved with excess alkalinity, which allows the formulator flexibility when choosing a preservative for their finished formulation. This product also meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.Org.

STEPAN-MILD® PCL-BA is a mild, sulfate-free, anionic surfactant blend preserved with benzoic acid. This blend generates high foam and exhibits good viscosity-building characteristics. It's a common choice in personal care products like shampoo, facial cleanser, body wash, bubble bath, and liquid hand soap.

MAKON® 14 functions as a high-active nonionic surfactant with diverse applications, including agricultural applications, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. MAKON® 14's roles encompass being an emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. The product holds kosher certification.

STEPANQUAT® DC1 is a concentrated quaternary blend that is highly suitable for formulating hair conditioners. It provides excellent detangling properties and enhances both wet and dry combability. This blend is a valuable addition to detanglers, hair conditioners, and hair styling products.

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.

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.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40 HASB is sodium c14-16 olefin sulfonate that provides excellent viscosity, foam characteristics, and mildness. It is an ideal anionic surfactant for a variety of household, industrial, and institutional cleaning and personal care applications, as well as agricultural formulations and construction products used for concrete bases, firefighting foams, and dust control. It is preserved with excess alkalinity, which allows the formulator flexibility when choosing a preservative for their finished formulation.

STEPAN-MILD® BSB is a surfactant blend with anionic, nonionic, cationic, and amphoteric components. Its focus is on improving mildness without compromising performance. It's a fitting choice for baby liquid cleansing products and adult products for sensitive skin. Its low irritation properties are particularly advantageous for mild cleansing products.

STEPANQUAT® 50, benzalkonium chloride solutions, stand as a reliable choice for broad-spectrum preservation in personal care and pharmaceutical products. This clear liquid, maintaining its clarity at 25°C, is especially suitable for applications like eye contact lens solutions and topical antiseptics.

STEOL® CS-230 HA is an anionic surfactant boasting remarkable foam generation regardless of water hardness, coupled with low skin irritation potential. This 2-mole sodium laureth sulfate, produced in europe, is preserved with excess alkalinity, offering flexibility in preservative selection for final formulations, especially suited for mild cleansing and baby products.

STEPANOL® HB7-HA is an anionic surfactant notable for its exceptional foaming properties. It finds widespread application in shampoos, bath products, household cleaning formulations, and industrial cleaning formulations. Its utility spans across home care, institutional, and industrial cleaning, as well as personal care markets.

STEPANOL® WA-EXTRA-E is an anionic surfactant produced in europe and preserved with isothiazolones, providing excellent foaming and viscosity-building properties. It can be formulated into a wide variety of personal care and detergent formulations, such as shampoos, liquid hand soap, bath products, dishwashing detergents, fine fabric wash, carpet cleaning products, and textile applications.

STEOL® CS-170 UB is a 70% active, 1-mol sodium laureth sulfate recognized for its high activity, flowable paste form, excellent foaming, and mildness properties. Its applications are wide-ranging, encompassing shampoos, bath products, cleansing formulations, detergents, dishwashers, laundry, institutional and industrial cleaners, textile detergents, and wet processing.

STEOL® CS-230 is a low-active, 2-mol sodium laureth sulfate lauded for its excellent foam properties regardless of water hardness and low skin irritation characteristics. It's a versatile anionic surfactant that extends its applications beyond cleansing. It finds use as a gypsum additive, scouring agent, and additive in textile processing.

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.

STEPAN-MILD® 30 SF finds purpose in liquid cleansing personal care formulations. Its versatility is underscored by its usability in various personal care products, from shampoos and body washes to hand soaps and baby care items. Additionally, it caters to pet care applications.

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.

STEOL® CS-170 L6 CP is a high-activity, 1-mole alkyl ether sulfate anionic surfactant. Its applications span personal care, household, industrial, and institutional cleaning. Its functions include 2 in 1 shampoo, body wash, degreasers, hand dishwashing detergents, hand soaps, hard surface cleaners (dilutable), pet care, shampoos, shower gel, and more.

AMPHOSOL® MLB is a mild amphoteric surfactant that provides foam boosting and viscosity building for applications in personal care, home care, and industrial products. This surfactant is bio-based, naturally derived, sulfate-free, and eo po-free. Its primary function is to enhance foam and thicken formulations.

STEPANOL® PB offers a pearlescent surfactant concentrate for personal care applications like shampoos, hand soaps, body washes, facial cleansers, and bath products. Its ease of formulation involves water addition, preservative, and fragrance, yielding the desired product. It is derived from natural and plant-based sources, is kosher certified, and is suitable for personal care.

NINOL® COMF-N is available in a flaked form of coconut MEA amide, providing properties such as foam boosting, stabilization, and viscosity enhancement. This nonionic surfactant holds value in personal care applications such as shampoos, personal cleansers, liquid dish detergents, and laundry detergents.

AMMONYX® MO operates as a myristamine oxide, functioning as a cleansing agent, foam stabilizer, and viscosity builder in personal care and h&i products. This amphoteric surfactant is suitable for high-viscosity formulations and finds applications in various markets, including agricultural solutions, home care, institutional and industrial cleaning, personal care, and vehicle care.

STEPANOL® SLS PASTE™ is a low-active, high-viscosity sodium lauryl sulfate, providing excellent foaming and viscosity-building properties. It can be formulated into a wide variety of personal care and detergent formulations, such as shampoos, liquid hand soaps, bath products, dishwashing detergents, fine fabric washes, and carpet cleaning products.

STEPANOL® WA-100, derived through Stepan's advanced sulfation process of fatty alcohol with SO3, is a high-quality, spray-dried sodium lauryl sulfate powder with remarkable purity. Its versatility shines through, as it serves as an excellent foaming agent and mouth dispersant in dentifrices. Notably, its low levels of unsulfated material eliminate the bitter taste often associated with other sodium lauryl sulfates, enhancing the overall sensory experience in toothpaste formulations.

STEPAN® 745 GC is a nonionic liquid emollient that's 100% active. It serves as a versatile ingredient in bath and body washes, shampoos, and facial cleansers. Being naturally derived with a high hlb (hydrophilic-lipophilic balance), it's suitable for clear surfactant systems and can be easily incorporated via cold mix methods.

MAKON® L62 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer with properties like low foaming and good oil-in-water emulsification. Its versatility covers an array of markets, including household, industrial, institutional, agriculture, paints and coatings, pulp and paper, and textiles. It finds its niche in metal cleaning, spray washing, warewashing, rinse aids, general-purpose cleaning, textile wetting, and agricultural pesticide formulations. As with other makon® products, it maintains the characteristic of being a low-ash product.

BIO-TERGE® AS-90 BEADS is a high-active, spray-dried anionic surfactant that excels in wetting, foaming, and detergency. Its applications span household, personal care, and industrial contexts, including shampoos, liquid hand soaps, bath products, dust control, concrete and firefighting foams, suspension concentrates, suspoemulsions, and agricultural applications.

LATHANOL® LAL FLAKE stands as a gentle anionic surfactant boasting foaming, wetting, and emulsification properties. It boasts applicability in an array of personal care products, including 2-in-1 shampoo, body scrubs, body wash, facial cleansers, hand soaps, men's grooming, shampoos, shower gel, and soap bars. The product finds its niche within the personal care market. Notable attributes encompass being bio-based, kosher (certified), naturally derived, plant-derived, preservative-free, sulfate-free, and eo po-free.

STEPANQUAT® Soleil is a modern hair conditioning agent that is better for the hair and the environment thanks to its better ecotoxicity profile compared to btac (behentrimonium chloride) and cetac (cetrimonium chloride). Additionally, stepanquat soleil is readily biodegradable, gmo-free, and derived from local renewable or sustainable feedstock. This product smooths each individual hair strand for super-soft, manageable hair without any build-up effect. It allows for easy combing on both wet and dry hair and possesses great substantivity. It conditions hair as well as or better than market-leading conditioning agents while having a very nice environmental profile.

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.

STEPANOL® ALS 25 serves as an anionic surfactant with remarkable foam and viscosity traits. Its applications span liquid hand soaps, bath products, carpet and upholstery cleaners, and textile scouring. Being bio-based, kosher certified, naturally derived, and plant-derived, it's an environmentally friendly choice.

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.