Products in Surfactants & Cleansers: Conditioning

DOWSIL(TM) 5-7113 Silicone Quat Microemulsion is a 22% nonionic emulsion containing a quaternized amino-functional silicone polymer. This formulation is designed as a conditioning additive for hair care products, including shampoos, conditioners, and styling aids. The product facilitates easy formulation and maintains stability upon dilution.

Plantapon® SFA is a highly versatile liquid designed to meet diverse needs in personal care formulations, spanning from baby care and hair care to oral hygiene products. Its yellowish liquid state serves as an ideal base for crafting premium-quality items. With its anionic surfactant properties, it functions not only as a surfactant but also as a thickener and viscosity modifier. The product proudly boasts natural and sustainable characteristics, derived from renewable resources and promoting biodegradability, aligning perfectly with eco-conscious formulations.

Gluadin® WQ UP is a versatile ingredient renowned for its natural, plant-based attributes. Primarily functioning as a cationic surfactant and conditioner, it's formulated for personal care applications. This liquid formula caters to diverse formats like leave-on products, rinse-offs, and wipes, ensuring effective hair conditioning and overall conditioning benefits.

Texapon® SFA UP Powder is an anionic surfactant, that excels in solid, EO-free rinse-off products. It's RSPO mass balanced, ISO 16128 certified, Sokalan® PA 25 X S providing excellent hair conditioning, skin compatibility, and rich, creamy foam in personal care applications.

AMMONYX® CETAC-30 E finds application in a range of contexts, delivering notable conditioning and softening attributes. As a cationic surfactant, it's employed in formulations like hair conditioners, hair styling aids, creams, and lotions. Categorized within the chemical group of quaternary ammonium compounds, its primary function revolves around enhancing the skin's feel. Furthermore, it's worth mentioning that this product is sulfate-free.

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.

AMMONYX® 4B is a substantive ammonium quaternary used in applications such as hair conditioners, rinses, mousses, creams, and lotions. It fulfills the functions of enhancing skin feel and acting as a textile antistatic agent. It finds relevance in the personal care and industrial product markets.

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® CDO SPECIAL is a cocamidopropyl amine oxide employed in personal care, household and industrial cleaning, and specialty foaming applications. AMMONYX® CDO SPECIAL is an amphoteric surfactant stable under peroxide bleach conditions, serving as a foam booster and textile antistat agent.

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.

AMMONYX® LMDO is a lauryl/myristyl amidoamine oxide with widespread application in hi&i (household, industrial, and institutional) contexts. It contributes to foam and viscosity enhancement and demonstrates stability in the presence of peroxide bleach. It aligns with the surfactant screen of the u.S. Epa safer choice program and is listed on cleangredients.

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® 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.

MAPROSYL® 30-B is a mild detergent derived from natural fatty acids and n-methyl glycine (sarcosine). It's cold-processable and soap-like, with excellent wetting and foaming properties. It's versatile in various applications, including detergency, and can work alongside anionic, cationic, and nonionic surfactants.

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.

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.

AMPHOSOL® CDB-HP is an enhanced amphoteric surfactant designed for cold processing and easy handling. It functions as a secondary surfactant, contributing to viscosity building and foam boosting across an array of personal care applications. Its flexibility in preservation choice is a valuable feature for formulators.

AMMONYX® 4 operates as a substantive cationic quaternary, commonly employed in conditioners, cream rinses, mousses, and lotions. Its primary functions are enhancing skin feel and serving as a textile antistatic agent. It finds applications in 2-in-1 shampoos, body washes, detanglers, facial cleansers, hair conditioners, hair styling, and hair and scalp treatments. Its presence spans across the industrial products and personal care markets.

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.

Quatrex™ S conditioning agent is a 26% solids, soybean oil-derived, liquid cationic surfactant exhibiting excellent substantivity and conditioning properties. Its anionic compatibility is ideal for formulating true conditioning shampoos. Its superior solubility properties enable many formulation possibilities in sprays, mousses, setting gels, and conditioners.

Schercodine™ C amido-amine is a naturally derived, cationic surfactant. It is an effective conditioner in hair and skin care products. It is 98% active as a clear liquid tertiary amine. It is used in pH 3.4–4.4 formulations as a quaternary ammonium salt 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.

Merquat™ 550PR polymer is a low-acrylamide, non-paraben, aqueous, cationic copolymer that enhances compatibility and clarity in anionic surfactant systems. It is highly substantive and recommended for improving the wet and dry properties of hair care products, as well as enhancing the sensory feel of skin care, bath, and shower products. It provides superior conditioning within the PQ-7 family.

Merquat™ 2001 polymer is a proprietary, ampholytic terpolymer primarily used in hair care products for its superior wet hair combing and detangling properties. It is recommended for use in shampoos and conditioning rinses where excellent wet and dry conditioning properties are desired.

Hydramol™ PGDS ester is a water-soluble emollient that provides moisturization and humectant properties without leaving a greasy residue. It can be used in skin care emulsions, where it delivers emolliency from the water phase upon contact. In hair treatments, its large, branched polymer structure adds body and manageability. Hydramol™ PGDS ester can replace alkanolamides in cleansing systems, providing conditioning, emolliency, viscosity building, and enhanced lather. It is recommended for use in cleansing systems, including hand sanitizer gels, as well as antiperspirant and deodorant applications.

Silsense® Q-Plus Silicone is a 100% active, quaternary silicone compound that combines the conditioning benefits of traditional silicones and cationic quaternary compounds in a single molecule. SilSense Q-Plus silicone will add conditioning benefits to personal care products without the stability concerns that may be present with silicones or the irritancy that is often associated with quaternary ammonium compounds. Unlike traditional silicones, this silicone quarternary compound does not defoam and can even enhance foaming when used in hair care products. It is water-soluble, lending to enhanced ease-of-use in a wide range of shampoos, conditioners, and personal cleansers.

Silsense® Copolyol-1 Silicone is a 100% active dimethicone copolyol blend. It is a proprietary blend of personal care-grade polyethylene glycols and dimethicone copolyol (a copolymer of polydi-methylsiloxane and polyoxyalkylene ether). It is recommended for use in skin care lotions and creams, personal wash products, hair care applications, and aloe vera gel formulations.

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.

Merquat™ 2003PR polymer is a proprietary, non-paraben, ampholytic terpolymer developed for use in color protection shampoos. It offers attributes such as ultimate foam stability, color retention after multiple washings, and enhanced wet combability and detangling. It is suitable for use in hair care products, shampoos, and conditioners.

Merquat™ 7SPR polymer is a high molecular weight, non-paraben, low-acrylamide, cationic copolymer specifically designed for compatibility and clarity in anionic surfactant systems. It is used to improve the wet and dry properties of hair care products and enhance the sensory feel of bath and shower products.

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.

Plantapon® LC 7 is an anionic surfactant that is suitable for use in a range of personal care cleansing products, including mild shampoos, shower and bath preparations, facial washes, and cleansing wipes. It is particularly well-suited for use in formulations intended for skin care and hair care.

Pluracare® F 127 NF Prill is a copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide and has the general functionality of surfactants, emulsifiers, solubilizers and stabilizers in preparations where the quality of poloxamer may be required. This product has an average molecular weight of 12,600, a viscosity of 3,100 cP, and a pour/melt point of 56°C.

Dehyquart® A CA is a cationic surfactant commonly used as a conditioning agent in hair conditioning creams and emulsions. It appears as a clear liquid with characteristic inherent odor and is used as a hair conditioner and for hair coloring and shampooing.

Pluracare® E 400 is a versatile personal care ingredient with an average molecular weight of 400. As a homopolymer of ethylene oxide, it serves as a nonionic surfactant, solubilizer, and viscosity control agent. Its applications range from skincare to haircare, providing excellent performance in various formulations.

Dehyquart® F 75 T is a quaternary compound of conditioning and emulsifying ingredients. This product is suited for the preparation of hair conditioning creams and emulsions. Its typical application concentrations are 2 - 5%. Due to the high content of quaternary ammonium salt, the addition of further consistency giving factors like, e.g., Lanette® O, is recommended. Dehyquart® F 75 T is a white to yellowish wax-like product that is supplied in pellets. It has a cationic surfactant (MW 800) of 65 - 72%, an acid value of 5 - 12, a pH value (5%) of 2.0 - 3.5, and a color gardner of 0 - 4. The most favorable conditioning and stability properties are obtained in a pH range of 3 - 5.

Dehyquart® S18 NA is a surfactant that is used for manufacturing hair care products, specifically hair conditioners. Because of its cationic nature at acidic pH levels, Dehyquart S18 NA has a positive impact on the wet and dry combability of hair.