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Stepan Company, manufacturer of specialty and intermediate chemical products, partners with customers to create innovative solutions for a cleaner, healthier, more energy efficient world. Collaborations with customers bring high-quality products that drive growth in consumer and functional markets such as construction, oilfield, agriculture and paints and coatings. Stepan has been a mainstay in the industry since 1932, committed to developing sustainable practices and products that reflect the company’s core values of responsibility, integrity and innovation.

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BIO-SOFT® is a nonionic surfactant blend that is an excellent cleaner, degreaser, and detergent. It can be formulated into concentrates and ready-to-use products for household, industrial, and institutional applications. 

BIO-SOFT

POLYSTEP

STEPANTEX® is a cationic surfactant providing excellent softening, cold water dispersability and good rewetting properties. It is used in household and industrial fabric softeners. 

STEPANTEX

STEPFAC

AMMONYX® is an amphoteric surfactant finding application in personal care, HI&I applications as foam enhancers, viscosity builders and as emulsifiers and lubricants in textile applications. 

AMMONYX

Our butyl-based TOXIMUL® series are multifunctional polymeric surfactants that are excellent emulsifiers in oil-based systems and come in a range of high ethylene oxide (EO) content. Our product line of low pour point materials has been developed with a range of hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) values, EO content and water solubility to enable formulators to find solutions for even the most challenging formulations.


TOXIMUL

STEPAN-MILD® is an mild surfactant blend with good foam quality and viscosity building. It is used for baby products, shampoos, bubble baths, liquid hand soaps, shower gels and bath products.

STEPAN-MILD

STEPOSOL

STEPANPOL® polyester polyols are designed for use in a wide variety of polyurethane and polyisocyanurate applications. We offer a full range of polyols, including those for C.A.S.E. (Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants, Elastomers), Flexible Foam, and Rigid Foam applications.

STEPANOL

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.

STEPANATE® SCS-40

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.

STEPOSOL® MET-10U

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.

STEPANTEX® VL 90 A

AMMONYX® LO is a lauramine oxide that finds applications in personal care, hi&amp;i applications as foam enhancers, viscosity builders, and as emulsifiers and lubricants in textile applications. It offers long-lasting foam. This product meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

AMMONYX® LO

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.

STEPANTEX® VT-90

STEPANTEX® DC 90 is a diester fabric softener quaternary that offers commendable softening, antistatic, and rewetting properties. As a liquid cationic surfactant, it is particularly well-suited for creating formulations of fabric softeners intended for both household and industrial use. It falls within the chemical group of dialkyl quaternary esters and functions as a textile antistatic agent. Notably, this product is kosher-certified, can be cold-mixed, and does not necessitate heating during the formulation process.

STEPANTEX® DC 90

STEPOSOL® CITRI-MET presents a solution composed of steposol® met-10u, citrus terpenes, and emulsifiers, surpassing petroleum-based solvents in cleaning and solvency with minimal voc content and a bio-based source. It's applicable to various cleaner types, from home-market multi-surface cleaners to industrial cleaners.

STEPOSOL® CITRI-MET

NACCONOL® 90G is a high-active sodium salt of linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid, renowned for its high foaming, fast wetting, and emulsification attributes. It finds use in cleaning formulations where foam is desirable and is versatile enough to be used in high-active, powder formulations, as well as construction products like concrete admixtures, firefighting foams, and dust control additives.

NACCONOL® 90G

ONYXIDE® 3300 is a registered biocide with a unique saccharinate counterion, distinguishing it from conventional n-alkyl dimethylbenzyl ammonium chloride (adbac). While it has limited water solubility (&lt;0.01%), larger quantities can be solubilized by adding other surfactants or certain solvents (alcohols, glycols, or glycol ethers). It offers an alternative to traditional biocides with chloride counterions, thereby mitigating the severe metal corrosivity linked to them.

ONYXIDE® 3300

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STEPANQUAT® HC BASE is a cationic surfactant that has its primary application in hair conditioning. Noteworthy features include its compatibility with cold mixing processes, eliminating the need for heat. Its application extends to detanglers and hair conditioners within the realm of personal care products.

STEPANQUAT® HC BASE Safety Data Sheet

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STEPANQUAT® HC BASE

STEPANQUAT® 885 is categorized as a quaternary compound, serves as a deodorizing and odor-controlling agent in hard surface applications such as hard surface cleaners (dilutable and ready-to-use) and kitchen cleaners. It is geared towards the home care and institutional and industrial cleaning markets.

STEPANQUAT® 885

STEPANQUAT® 1010 is a quaternary compound with a specific role in deodorization and odor control, especially in dilutable hard surface cleaners. Belonging to the quaternary compound chemical group, it serves markets like home care and institutional and industrial cleaning. Its application extends to hard surface cleaners (dilutable and ready-to-use) and kitchen cleaners.

STEPANQUAT® 1010

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.

STEPANQUAT® 8188

STEPANQUAT® Helia is a modern hair conditioning agent with hair-friendly and environmentally-friendly attributes. This mild, naturally-derived cationic surfactant is perfect for hair conditioners and skincare products. It imparts excellent wet and dry combability to hair, along with detangling and a soft, conditioned feel. Moreover, it provides substantive conditioning without causing buildup. In skincare applications, it delivers a unique, soft, conditioned skin feel and emulsification for oil-in-water (o/w) emulsions.

STEPANQUAT® Helia

STEPANQUAT® 200 is a quaternary used for odor control in water reclamation. Stepanquat 200 is miscible with soft and hard water (400 ppm caco3) in all proportions, as well as with alcohol and acetone in all proportions. Stepanquat 200 is insoluble in ether, benzene, petroleum, and/or chloroform. Stepanquat 200, at the recommended use level, does not contribute to the corrosion of metal compounds.

STEPANQUAT® 200

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.

STEPANQUAT® 50

STEPANQUAT® 65, 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.

STEPANQUAT® 65

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.

STEPANQUAT® Soleil

STEPANQUAT® HC BASE is a cationic surfactant that has its primary application in hair conditioning. Noteworthy features include its compatibility with cold mixing processes, eliminating the need for h

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	Value	Units	Test Method / Conditions
Boiling Point	min. 70	°C	—
Density (at 25°C)	1.01	g/ml	—
Flash Point	28	°C	—
pH (in 1% aqueous)	3.7	—	—
Solids Content	51	%	—
Specific Gravity (at 25°C)	1.01	—	—
Viscosity (at 25°C)	1460	cPs	—

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