Products in Hand Hygiene: Surfactant

EcoSense(TM) GL-60 HA Surfactant is a unique bio-derived, glycolipid surfactant and emulsifier for rinse-off and leave-on applications. EcoSense(TM) GL-60 HA Surfactant is a 100% bio-derived, non-GMO, sugar-based biosurfactant and natural emulsifier with a high acid sophorolipids content. This glycolipid is mild to skin and eyes. It is readily biodegradable and exhibits low aquatic toxicity in the environment.

EcoSense(TM) GL-60 HL Surfactant is a unique bio-derived, glycolipid surfactant and emulsifier for rinse-off and leave-on applications. EcoSense(TM) GL-60 HL Surfactant is a 100% bio-derived, non-GMO, sugar-based biosurfactant and natural emulsifier with a high lactone sophorolipids content. This glycolipid is mild to skin. It is readily biodegradable and exhibits low aquatic toxicity in the environment.

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.

BIO-TERGE® AS-90 COARSE is a versatile, highly active anionic surfactant providing excellent wetting, foaming, and deterrent properties in alkaline, acidic, or neutral media and in the presence of metallic salts commonly found in hard waters. These characteristics make it suitable for a variety of personal care, household, and industrial applications, such as shampoo (bar soap), handsoap, bath products, and cleaning products, but it can also be used as a firefighting foamer or air-entraining agent for mortar and plaster.

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.

MAPROSYL® 30-MP is a mild, soap-like detergent renowned for its outstanding wetting and foaming characteristics. MAPROSYL® 30-MP delivers efficient detergency and good rinsing properties, displaying compatibility with anionic, cationic, and nonionic surfactants. This product is particularly suited for apac formulations.

AMPHOSOL® 2CSF-AF is an alcohol-free disodium cocoamphodipropionate. This mild amphoteric surfactant is used as a secondary surfactant, foam booster, and viscosity builder in personal care and h&i cleaning. The product is bio-based, kosher-certified, naturally derived, plant-derived, salt-free, sulfate-free, and eo/po-free.

STEOL® CS-330 HA is a low-active, 3-mole sodium laureth sulfate offering skin compatibility, foaming, and viscosity characteristics. It finds application in a range of personal care and cleaning products, including shampoos, body washes, liquid hand wash, dishwashing liquid, laundry detergent, car wash, and industrial cleaning applications. Its excess alkalinity-based preservation provides flexibility for preservative selection.

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.

AMPHOSOL® CDB-HP-E is a preservative-free mild surfactant that enhances the viscosity response of sulfate-free and traditional anionic surfactant systems. It is designed for easy handling and cold processing, serving as a secondary surfactant, foam booster, or static control agent. Compatible with anionic, nonionic, and cationic surfactants, this amphoteric surfactant offers flexibility in selecting a preservative for the final formulation.

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.

STEPANBLEND® LDW is a surfactant blend tailored to streamline home care and personal care formulations. This blend boasts high and stable foam volume coupled with excellent cleaning performance. Additionally, it offers all the advantages of surfactant blends, including cold mixability and ease of handling for transportation, storage, and mixing considerations.

CEDEPAL® TD-403 MKLD is a gentle, branched-chain anionic surfactant renowned for its superb wetting and foaming properties. This sodium trideceth sulfate product is preserved with cit/MIT and is well-suited for mild cleansing products, baby products, shampoos, liquid hand soaps, and bath products.

AMPHOSOL® CA is a cocamidopropyl betaine derived from coco-methyl esters. This mild amphoteric surfactant AMPHOSOL® CA serves as a foam booster and viscosity builder in various personal care applications, as well as specialty foamer applications, hard surface cleaning, and vehicle care.

AMMONYX® LO SPECIAL is a naturally derived lauramine oxide surfactant that plays diverse roles across personal care, household, and industrial products. It serves as a foam enhancer, viscosity builder, and emulsifier in personal care formulations. Moreover, it functions as a lubricant in textile applications.

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.

STEOL® CS-230 K is a low-active, 2-mole sodium laureth sulfate preserved with cit or mit. This anionic surfactant is prized for its excellent foam properties, irrespective of water hardness, making it suitable for mild cleansing and baby products. Additionally, it serves as a scouring agent in textile processing.

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.

AMPHOSOL® 2C is disodium cocoamphodiacetate, a mild amphoteric surfactant known for its role as a foam booster and viscosity builder in a variety of personal care applications. Its applications encompass 2 in 1 shampoo, baby care, body scrubs, body wash, facial cleansers, hand soaps, make-up removers, men's grooming, shampoos, shower gel, and soap bars within the personal care market.

STEOL® CA-460 is a 60% active synthetic 3-mole ammonium laureth sulfate renowned for its excellent foaming and foam stability properties. This anionic surfactant, containing ethanol, maintains clarity and fluidity at room temperature. Its applications encompass liquid laundry detergents, car and truck washes, dishwashers, industrial foaming, scouring, leveling, and coupling in textile and metalworking applications.

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.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40 SUPER is an anionic blend developed from sodium olefin sulfonate produced via stepan's falling film process. It is an ideal surfactant for various detergent and home care applications, including dishwashing detergents, laundry detergents, and all-purpose cleaning products. It offers excellent synergistic cleaning properties, particularly when combined with dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid, resulting in enhanced product performance and potential cost savings. Moreover, it exhibits greater stability than alcohol sulfates across a wide ph range.

AMPHOSOL® LB-HP is a lauramidopropyl betaine used in a variety of applications for personal care, home care, and institutional and industrial cleaning. This amphoteric surfactant can be used to boost foam and build viscosity in formulations. It is preserved with excess alkalinity, which allows the formulator flexibility when choosing a preservative for their finished formulation.

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.

AMPHOSOL® CS-50 is an amphoteric surfactant that can be used as a secondary surfactant, providing foam boosting and viscosity building for personal care and hi&i applications. It is a cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine that is bio-based, kosher certified, naturally derived, sulfate-free, eo/po-free, and plant-derived.

STEPANOL® WAT-K is an anionic surfactant with excellent foam and viscosity characteristics. It can be used in shampoos, bubble baths, liquid hand soaps, liquid dishwashing detergents, and liquid laundry detergents. It provides formulations with a dense, creamy foam. It is bio-based, kosher certified, naturally derived, and plant-derived.

STEOL® CS-230 PCK is a low-active, 2-mol sodium laureth sulfate preserved with cit or mit. It delivers mildness alongside excellent foaming and viscosity responses. This surfactant is readily utilized in formulations ranging from shampoos and body washes to bath products and hand soaps, especially when enhanced viscosities are sought.

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 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.

STEPANBLEND® APB is a mild surfactant concentrate blend meticulously formulated to streamline personal care cleansing formulations such as shampoos, liquid hand soaps and other bath products. It offers versatility for clear, opaque, or pearlescent formulations, allowing usage at 15-25% by weight, or less for economy formulations.

STEPANOL® CFAS-70 is an anionic surfactant with diverse applications ranging from laundry and cleaning products like dishwashing liquids and laundry detergents, to personal care items like shampoos, body washes, liquid hand soaps, facial cleansers, and bath products. Its bio-based, kosher-certified, naturally derived, and plant-derived properties make it appealing.

AMPHOSOL® HCG is a naturally-derived cocamidopropyl betaine with 30% actives. This mild amphoteric surfactant offers foam boosting and viscosity building across personal care, hard surface cleaning, and specialty foamer products. Like other products, it carries attributes such as being bio-based, kosher-certified, naturally derived, plant-derived, sulfate-free, and free of eo and po.

STEPAN-MILD® L3-G/MB is a viscosity builder, foam booster, emulsifier, and emollient that can be used in a variety of personal care formulations, including shampoo, body wash, liquid soap, bubble bath, facial cleanser, and cream and lotion formulations. This rspo mass balance-certified ingredient is best suited for use in european formulations.

STEPANOL® WAT is an anionic surfactant celebrated for its excellent foaming and viscosity characteristics. Derived from natural and plant-based sources, it's commonly used in personal care, laundry, and cleaning products. Its versatility is exemplified in applications such as 2-in-1 shampoos, body washes, and both automatic and hand carwashes. Moreover, it carries kosher certification.