Products in Hair Care: Cleansing Agent

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.

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.

STEPAN-MILD® SL3-BA is a 30% active disodium salt of a 3-mole ethoxylated lauryl sulfosuccinate. It stands as a mild cleansing agent that finds its way into shampoos, hand soaps, baby shampoos, bubble baths, cleansing products, creams, lotions, and even the manufacture of latexes.

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.

AMMONYX® CETAC serves as a cationic surfactant employed in hair conditioners, skin creams, and lotions to deliver conditioning and softening benefits. It is also multifunctional, working as a skin-feel enhancer, textile antistatic agent, and adjuvant. Its applications span a wide range, including 2-in-1 shampoo, automatic dishwashing detergents, body wash, creams and lotions, dairy cleaners, degreasers, detanglers, and more. Notably, it is kosher-certified, preservative-free, and sulfate-free.

Sulfochem™ ES-701US surfactant is a naturally derived, 70% active, 1 mole surfactant known for its versatility and cost-effectiveness. It is highly flowable and easy to use, enabling efficient batching of personal care formulations containing surfactants. This surfactant is bio-based and offers excellent flowability, making it convenient for processing formulations with high levels of active surfactant.

Chemccinate™ DSLS-BA surfactant is a naturally derived anionic surfactant known for its effective yet mild cleansing and gentle foaming properties. It is commonly used in color protection shampoos, baby shampoos, bath and shower gels, and other mild cleansing products. It is recommended for use in finished product formulations with pH ranges from 5 to 7.

Amidex™ C-CM surfactant is a concentrated and self-preserving liquid version of Cocamide MEA. It combines the foam-boosting and foam stabilizing properties of betaine in a single, easy-to-handle blend. This surfactant offers excellent viscosity-building properties when used with anionics and is particularly well-suited for bath and shower products where stable foam, good wetting, and gentle cleansing are desired. The ratio of amides to betaines is approximately 1:4 on a % solids basis.

Chemoryl™ SCI surfactant is a gentle surfactant recognized for its remarkable foaming ability, creating a stable and luxurious lather. Perfect for applications ranging from baby care products to shampoos, liquid soaps, and bath gels, it offers a creamy cleansing experience. Presented as white, waxy noodles, this surfactant requires heat for dissolution.

Quickpearl™ EGL Pearlizing Agent is an opaque, performance surfactant concentrate that provides a novel white opaque pearl esthetic in body washes, shampoos, liquid hand soaps, foaming bath gels, and other personal care cleansing products. It can be used in a cold-process manufacturing environment for efficiency and energy savings.

Sulfochem™ ES-60 surfactant is a naturally derived, cost-effective surfactant with a 3-mole structure and 60% active content. It is commonly used in shampoo systems, bubble baths, and cleansers due to its excellent foaming properties. It is listed on Safer Choice, indicating its safer chemical ingredients.

Quickpearl™ PSB3 Pearlizing Agent is a high solids, alkyl and alkyl ether sulfate free, special surfactant blend designed to be easily incorporated into products using a cold blend process, imparting best in class pearl effects. With only three ingredients, It provides formulators with greater flexibility. It is flowable, making it easy to handle and easy to disperse in personal care cleansing products.

Chembetaine™ CAD surfactant is a high purity, low color, and low odor surfactant that exhibits excellent foaming, lathering, and viscosity building characteristics. It is derived from stripped fatty acids, which contribute to its superior performance. This surfactant synergistically provides mildness and is recommended for use in shampoos, facial cleansers, bubble baths, and shower gels. It offers exceptional clarity and remains stable across a wide pH range.

Amidex™ CME surfactant is a naturally derived viscosity builder, foam enhancer, and stabilizer. It can be used in shower gels, shampoos, hand soaps, skin cleansers, and other cleansing products when a tight, dense, luxurious foam is desired. It is 100% coconut oil-derived.

Chemoryl™ SFB-10SSB surfactant is an alkyl and alkyl ether sulfate-free, DEA and MEA amide-free, mild, multipurpose surfactant concentrate formulated to yield a mild cleansing system with the addition of fragrance, preservative, water, and thickener. It is an excellent choice for providing very mild cleansing and gentle foaming in shampoos, baby care products, body washes, and other mild cleansing products.

Sulfochem™ ALS-SB surfactant is a naturally derived, bio-based surfactant that provides a dense and rich foam when formulating lower pH shampoos, shower gels, and other personal care cleansing products. It is preserved with sodium benzoate and exhibits a good viscosity response when alkanolamides are added.

Schercodine™ S (Flaked) amido-amine is a cationic surfactant. It is an effective conditioner in hair and skin care products. It is a flaked, solid tertiary amine. It is used in pH 3.4–4.4 formulations as a quaternary ammonium salt as a conditioner. It is used to replace quaternary cationic surfactants in rinse-off conditioners. It provides excellent wet combing and wet sensory common protonating acids are lactic, aspartic, citric, and glutamic acids.

Lubrizol Life Science - Beauty Potassium Cocoate is a coconut oil-derived potassium salt. It contains glycerin, which serves as a natural moisturizer in personal care formulations. Potassium Cocoate soap is often used as a base for natural shampoo formulations, liquid soaps, and body washes due to its excellent foaming capabilities and soft feel.

Chemoryl™ LG Surfactant is a naturally derived non-ionic surfactant. It generates exceptional foam for a nonionic surfactant, comparable with foam obtained using conventional anionic surfactants. Used as a co-surfactant, it can reduce the total active ingredient content of foaming formulations without altering their performance and is ideal for a wide variety of personal care applications. It is compatible with all classes of surfactants, including cationics. It can be used in conjunction with difficult-to-thicken surfactants, such as sulfosuccinates, to enhance viscosity buildup and also help increase foam volume in low-foaming formulations. Great for use in alkyl sulfate and alkyl ether sulfate-free formulations as a primary or secondary surfactant. Also ideal for use in shampoos, bath gels, bubble baths, and other cleansing applications.

Sulfochem™ ES-2PSB surfactant is a naturally-derived primary cleansing surfactant that is low in 1,4-dioxane. It is known for its excellent flash foaming properties and is commonly used in clear or pearlescent shampoos, cleansers, and bath and shower products where a high volume of foam is desired. This surfactant is bio-based and compatible with a wide range of other surfactants, enhancing its versatility in formulation development.

Sulfochem™ ES-703US surfactant is a naturally derived, 70% active, 3-mole surfactant known for its versatility and cost-effectiveness. It is highly flowable and easy to use, enabling efficient batching of personal care formulations containing surfactants. This surfactant is bio-based and offers excellent flowability, making it ideal for processing formulations with high levels of active surfactant.

Amidex™ LIPA surfactant is a naturally derived ingredient that serves as a viscosity builder, foam enhancer, and stabilizer. It is commonly used in shower gels, shampoos, hand soaps, skin cleansers, and other cleansing products to achieve a tight, dense, and luxurious foam. Amidex™ LIPA surfactant can be used as a replacement for DEA amides and MEA amides at a 75% use level, providing an effective alternative for formulators.

Chembetaine™ C-PHP surfactant is a high-pH, high-foaming surfactant derived from plant feedstock. It demonstrates excellent foam and viscosity-building characteristics and synergistically provides mildness. Chembetaine™ C-PHP surfactant is recommended for use in shampoos, conditioners, facial cleansers, bubble baths, and bath gels.

Chemoxide™ CAW surfactant is an excellent choice for mild, low-irritation formulations such as shampoos, facial cleansers, and bath products. It is a surfactant derived from coconut oil. This surfactant helps build viscosity and boost foam over a broad pH range.

Chembetaine™ ACB surfactant is a 100% coconut-derived, amphoteric surfactant that is compatible with anionic, cationic, and nonionic surfactants. It acts as a naturally derived foam booster and reduces irritation when formulated with anionic surfactants. Additionally, it functions as a good lime soap dispersant and exhibits good electrolyte tolerance.

Chemoryl™ SFB-4SB surfactant is an alkyl and alkyl ether sulfate-free, DEA- and MEA-amide-free surfactant concentrate. When fragrance, preservative, water, and thickener are added, it creates a mild cleansing system. Chemoryl™ SFB-4SB surfactant provides very gentle cleansing and good foam in color protection shampoos, baby shampoos, bath and shower gels, and other mild cleansing products.

Sulfochem™ SLS-PHP surfactant MB is a naturally derived sodium lauryl sulfate surfactant with a pH-preserving formulation. It is low in color and odor and is suitable for use in clear or pearlescent bath or shower products, shampoos, hand soaps, and other personal care cleansers. This surfactant is known for producing copious, rich, and dense foam. It can be formulated with other secondary surfactants to create high-viscosity formulations with excellent foaming characteristics. It is included on the Safer Chemical Ingredient List (SCIL) and certified under the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Mass Balance supply chain protocol.

Chembetaine™ CGF surfactant is a glycerin-free surfactant derived from coconut fatty acids. It is a high purity, low color ingredient that exhibits excellent foam and viscosity-building properties. Similar to Chembetaine™ CAD, it also synergistically provides mildness. This surfactant is well-suited for use in shampoos, facial cleansers, bubble baths, and bath gels.

Schercoquat™ IAS-PG quaternary compound is a highly concentrated liquid quaternary of an isostearic substituted amidoamine. It is an extremely effective conditioner, especially in clear hair rinses and skin conditioning lotions. The presence of the amido group makes it an outstanding quaternary with enhanced substantivity and improved water solubility.

EUCAROL® D is a citric acid-derived, mild, anionic surfactant. Low irritating power and good foaming properties. Suggested for skin cleansers and shower products. Physical form: liquid, 25% solution

EUCAROL® AGL C100 MB is a glutamate-based, mild, anhydrous anionic surfactant. Outstanding foam boosting properties, providing a fine and creamy foam in combination with other surfactants. Soft feeling to the skin during and after use. Due to its conditioning properties on skin and hair, it is suitable also for haircare, providing lubricity, softness and silk feel to the hair. The absence of water make it suitable for solid, water free or low water cointaining products. Physical form: powder, 100%

Eucarol® EASY MB is a versatile blend of mild anionic surfactants derived from vegetable raw materials. It is optimized for improved compatibility and easy handling. Exploiting the synergy between sustainable amino acid and glucoside chemistries, Eucarol® EASY MB addresses modern formulation requirements as an excellent alternative to EO- and sulfate-containing surfactants. This product is a concentrated, powdered glucoside-based surfactant with outstanding foam and mildness, along with excellent cleansing properties for skin and hair. It is also characterized by an easy rinse for water-saving use. This product is ideal for waterless formulations such as shampoo bars, solid or powder cleansers, concentrated refills, cleansing milk, and lotions. It is easily thickened in combination with appropriate surfactants and/or natural gums, delivering pleasant rheological properties. Physical form: powder

Eucarol® AGL 35 MB is a glutamate-based, mild, anionic surfactant. It has outstanding foam-boosting properties, providing a fine and creamy foam in combination with other surfactants. It leaves a soft feeling on the skin during and after use. Due to its conditioning properties on skin and hair, it is also suitable for haircare, providing lubricity, softness, and a silky feel to the hair. Physical form: liquid, 30% solution

EUCAROL® AGE/EC MB is a sugar based anionic surfactant esterified with citric acid. Outstanding mildness towards skin, eyes and mucosa even at high concentrations. Good foaming power and cleansing properties. Suggested in baby or intimate detergents, make-up removers, bath or shower gels for sensitive skin. Due to its extreme mildness it is used also as detoxifier in traditional formulations. Used to disperse pigments (eg. in mascaras). Physical form: liquid, 30% solution

EUCAROL® AGE/ET MB is an α-hydroxy acid derived, sugar-based, mild anionic surfactant Outstanding mildness towards skin, coupled with good cleansing performances. Suggested for baby and intimate care as well as to reduce the irritation level of liquid soaps, shampoos and skin cleansers. Physical form: liquid, 30% solution

EUCAROL® B/M is a citric acid-derived, mild, anionic surfactant. Low irritating power and good foaming properties. Suitable for waterless or non-aqueous products. Physical form: liquid, 100%