Products in Commercial Laundry: Low Foaming

Plurafac® LF 120 is a low foaming nonionic surfactant consisting of fatty alcohol alkoxylates. Its versatility spans across industries, finding use in dishwashing, food processing, commercial laundry, and institutional cleaning.

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.

BIO-SOFT® N91-2.5 is a c9-11 linear alcohol ethoxylate featuring a low hlb. This versatile product offers rapid wetting, low foam, emulsification, and detergency. Its applications span laundry, textiles, hard surface cleaning, machine-based cleaning, paints, carpet cleaning, and institutional and industrial cleaning contexts.

MERPOL® SE is a nonionic surfactant known for its effective wetting properties and low foaming characteristics. It finds application in textile and paper processing, including automatic dishwashing detergents, brewery cleaners, floor cleaners, laundry aids, laundry detergents, and meat packing plant cleaners. Its market reach includes home care, industrial products, and institutional and industrial cleaning.

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.

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.

MAKON® TD-3 is a nonionic surfactant with broad utility in various agricultural formulations and is adjustable based on hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (hlb). The product, certified kosher, is applicable in agricultural solutions, home care, institutional, and industrial cleaning. Its use spans automatic dishwashing detergents, brewery cleaners, capsule suspensions (cs), and concentrated emulsions (ew).

MAKON® NF-5 stands as a nonionic surfactant, providing excellent wetting and low foaming traits. Its utility is broad, spanning mechanical dishwashing, metal cleaning, spray washing, general-purpose cleaning, emulsion polymerization, textile wetting, and scouring, as well as an additive for agricultural products.

STEPANQUAT® ML is a quaternary compound intended for use in hair conditioners, hair styling aids, creams, and lotions. Its functions include conditioning, static control, and emulsification for both oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions. It finds application across various markets including Food & Nutrition, Household, Industrial & Institutional Care, and Personal Care.

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.

STEPANATE® SXS is an anionic surfactant that functions as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. Its applications span liquid detergents, heavy-duty cleaning products, wax stripping formulations, dishwashing detergents, and textile applications. It adheres to the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

BIO-SOFT® TA-2 is a nonionic tallow amine ethoxylate surfactant with functions that encompass wetting, foam generation, emulsification, and corrosion inhibition. Its primary use is as an acid thickener, making it valuable in cleaners intended for vertical surfaces like toilet bowls, dairy, brewery, and food processing equipment.

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.

BIO-SOFT® N25-3 is a c12-15 linear alcohol ethoxylate with low hlb. It provides emulsification, moderate foam, detergency, and wetting. This product finds application in laundry prespotters, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, machine cleaning, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications. The product is kosher-certified and preservative-free.

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.

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.

Dehypound® HDG is a non-ionic surfactant blend that provides excellent multi-soil heavy-duty cleaning and degreasing performance. Its compatibility with a wide variety of home care and I&I blends, nonionic, anionic, cationic (including quaternary) and amphoteric surfactants, as well as strong acids and strong alkalis, gives you great formulating flexibility and allows you to create products for a wide range of applications, from industrial to food service and many more. Dehypound® HDG offers exceptional performance, easy formulating, and new opportunities.

Lutensol® XL 90 is a 100% active nonionic surfactant that enhances the wetting and degreasing power of foam cleaners. With its fast dynamics and excellent detergency on oily soils, it finds application in various fields, including dishwashing, laundry, hard surface cleaning, food and beverage processing, food service and kitchen hygiene, commercial and institutional laundry, and industrial cleaning.

Lutensol® XL 50 is a 100% active product with a comparatively lower level of residual alcohol than regular alcohol ethoxylates with the same degree of ethoxylation. It is suitable for use as a foam control and degreasing agent in machine floor cleaning.

Plurafac® LF 500 is a low-foaming nonionic surfactant that provides excellent foam control for Glucopon® surfactant and Deriphat® 160 C. It is mainly used for its wetting, low-foaming, or even defoaming properties. Plurafac® LF 500 finds applications in various industries, such as food and beverage processing, food service and kitchen hygiene, commercial laundry, institutional cleaning and sanitation, and industrial cleaning.

Lutensol® XP 90 is a 100% active nonionic surfactant that enhances the wetting and degreasing power of foam cleaners. With its fast dynamics and excellent detergency on oily soils, it finds application in various fields, including dishwashing, laundry, hard surface cleaning, food and beverage processing, food service and kitchen hygiene, commercial and institutional laundry, and industrial cleaning.

Lutensol® XL 80 is a 100% active product. It has very fast dynamics and excellent detergency on oily soils. Even when used at low levels, it can boost the degreasing power of the detergent without reducing the foam. It has a lower tendency to form gel compared to longer-chain alcohol ethoxylates.

Plurafac® LF 400 is a surfactant composed of predominantly unbranched fatty alcohols, including higher alkene oxides and ethylene oxide. The product is a low-foaming surfactant that offers excellent performance in terms of spotting and filming and has wetting and low-foam properties.

Dehypon® LS 36 is a low foaming non-ionic surfactant with a cloud point of 10°C. It is excellent for extraction cleaning and suitable for low temperature cleaning (Less than or equal to 45°C). The product exhibits good performance for cleaning and foam control.

Plurafac® LF 120 is a low-foaming nonionic surfactant composed of fatty alcohol alkoxylates. It exhibits excellent cleaning properties and synergistic effects when used in combination with Dehypon LS 36, resulting in reduced foam behavior. This versatile surfactant is suitable for various applications, including dishwashing, food and beverage processing, food service and kitchen hygiene, commercial laundry, and institutional cleaning and sanitation.

Lutensol® CS 6250 is a clear, colorless liquid with 100% activity that is a good solubilizer, penetrating agent, and low-foaming agent. It acts as a co-solvent or co-surfactant with a cloud point greater than 100 °C. It is a petroleum-based, non-ionic surfactant, and Lutensol® AO 7 is the main component in this category.

Lutensol® XP 70 is a 100% active product suitable for machine and manual floor cleaning as a low-foaming degreasing agent. It is readily biodegradable, has a lower tendency to form gel compared to longer-chain alcohol ethoxylates, and is listed on Safer Choice. The final surfactant choice, however, would be formulation-dependent.

Plurafac® LF 900 is a surfactant composed of 5% surfactant in a 25% solution of BDG, which provides excellent foam control and good wetting. It is listed on the EPA’s Safer Chemical Ingredients List, and its benefits include defoaming and foam control, as well as wetting and low foam properties.

Lutensol® XL 40 is available as a 100% active product and is suitable for machine floor cleaning as a foam controlling and degreasing agent. The level of residual alcohol is comparatively very low when compared to regular alcohol ethoxylates with the same degree of ethoxylation. It has a HLB value of 10.5 and is listed on the Safer Choice label. The final surfactant choice will be dependent on the formulation.

Plurafac® LF 403 is a low-foaming nonionic surfactant composed of predominantly unbranched fatty alcohols alkoxylated with higher alkene oxides and ethylene oxide. Its most important properties are wetting, low-foaming, or even defoaming, making it an excellent choice for controlling foam, particularly when used in combination with Glucopon® surfactant and Deriphat® 160 C.

Inoterra™ DWE is a clear liquid of 85% concentration, which utilizes the synergy between natural alcohol ethoxylates and 2-PH surfactants. Water is present to provide better phase stability. It has a cloud point of 53°C and an HLB of 12.4. It is listed on Safer Choice, although the final surfactant choice depends on the formulation.

Plurafac® LF-224 is a low-foaming nonionic surfactant composed of predominantly unbranched fatty alcohols alkoxylated with higher alkene oxides and ethylene oxide. Its most important properties are wetting, low-foaming, or even defoaming, making it an excellent choice for controlling foam, particularly when used in combination with Glucopon® surfactant and Deriphat® 160 C.

Plurafac® LF 431 offers excellent caustic stability and does not yellow when in direct contact with NaOH beads. The choice of final surfactant depends on the formulation and temperature of the cleaning process. Its essential properties include wetting, low-foaming, or even defoaming.

Lutensol® XL 70 is a 100% active product with very fast dynamics and excellent detergency on oily soils. It has a lower tendency to form a gel compared to longer-chain alcohol ethoxylates due to its fast-acting nature, which is attributed to its superior wetting profile.

Lutensol® XP 80 is a 100% active product with very fast wetting and effective cleaning. It is readily biodegradable and has a lower tendency to form gels compared to longer-chain alcohol ethoxylates. Additionally, it is listed on the EPA’s Safer Chemical Ingredients List. The final surfactant choice would be formulation-dependent.

Lutensol® TO 89 is suitable for both manual and machine floor cleaning. The hydrophobe is based on saturated iso-C13 alcohol with moderate branching. It is an effective NP-9 replacement in commercial laundry, with a cloud point of 60°C and moderate foam. Blends of Lutensol TDA 6 and 9 provide synergistic cleaning for dirty motor oil and dust sebum stains.