Products in Laundry & Fabric Care

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.

MAKON® L62 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer with properties like low foaming and good oil-in-water emulsification. Its versatility covers an array of markets, including household, industrial, institutional, agriculture, paints and coatings, pulp and paper, and textiles. It finds its niche in metal cleaning, spray washing, warewashing, rinse aids, general-purpose cleaning, textile wetting, and agricultural pesticide formulations. As with other makon® products, it maintains the characteristic of being a low-ash product.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40 HASB is sodium c14-16 olefin sulfonate that provides excellent viscosity, foam characteristics, and mildness. It is an ideal anionic surfactant for a variety of household, industrial, and institutional cleaning and personal care applications, as well as agricultural formulations and construction products used for concrete bases, firefighting foams, and dust control. It is preserved with excess alkalinity, which allows the formulator flexibility when choosing a preservative for their finished formulation.

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.

STEPAN® VCP is a synthetic thickener suitable for liquid detergents and household cleaning products. It is compatible with most surfactants and has a maximum pH tolerance of 8.5. When combined with alkyl ether sulfates, it improves viscosity, foam, and the cloud point.

SULFONIC 100 serves as an emulsifier intermediate for detergents in household, cleaner, and agricultural formulations. It can form both water-soluble and oil-soluble salts, offering flexibility in tailoring sulfonates to specific properties. Its utility extends to applications like drilling foamers, acid-catalyzed reactions, and catalysts in aqueous systems.

NINOL® COMF-N is available in a flaked form of coconut MEA amide, providing properties such as foam boosting, stabilization, and viscosity enhancement. This nonionic surfactant holds value in personal care applications such as shampoos, personal cleansers, liquid dish detergents, and laundry detergents.

MAKON® L101 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer distinguished for water-in-oil emulsification, low foaming, defoaming, and fast wetting attributes. Its usage spans metalworking, paints and coatings, agriculture, and industrial applications. Its core applications include anti-foaming, defoaming, oil cutting, dispersants, water-in-oil emulsifiers, emulsion polymerization, and textiles. It is a low-ash product.

STEPANTEX® 162 represents an innovative biodegradable ester quat, carefully crafted from vegetable feedstock. This liquid formulation not only ensures ease of handling but also delivers exceptional softness with remarkable versatility. With its robust stability and wide concentration range, STEPANTEX® 162 stands as a reliable choice for various applications, promising consistent performance and optimal results.

STEPANTEX® CA-88E presents itself as a top-tier fabric softener featuring a quaternary esterquat formulation derived from vegetable canola sources. Tailored for household and industrial fabric softeners. Notably, it delivers superior softening effects while avoiding any greasy residue, ensuring a luxuriously soft feel without compromising quality. Its versatility extends to effortlessly creating aqueous dispersions at room temperature, enhancing convenience in various formulations. Beyond fabric softening, it serves diverse applications, including polish compounds, textile auxiliaries, leather conditioners, and water repellents.

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.

STEPANATE® SCS-40A serves as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant in liquid detergent formulations. Its hydrotropic property enables the incorporation of incompatible materials, while also lowering the cloud point or crystallization temperature of complex blends. Notably, STEPANATE® SCS-40A contains no alcohol, thus preserving the flash point of your formulation.

BIO-SOFT® N1-73B is a c11 linear alcohol ethoxylate with a low pour point, providing rapid wetting, emulsification, and detergency. Its hlb of 11.6 makes it suitable for oil-in-water formulations. It's applicable to laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning.

BIO-TERGE® PAS-8S E is a high-quality, light-colored, aqueous solution of primary alkane sulfonate, known for its low-foaming, biodegradable anionic surfactant properties. It offers excellent coupling and hydrotropic properties across a wide pH range. With exceptional solubility in acidic and alkaline systems, it's versatile for formulating industrial and institutional cleaners, ensuring compatibility with detergent builders and bleach.

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.

MAKON® NF-180 is a nonionic surfactant designed for low-foaming and defoaming applications, including rinse aids and warewash formulations. It also serves as a dispersant and wetting agent. Its solubility in various solvents, such as ethanol, isopropanol, methanol, toluene, xylene, and perchloroethylene, makes it versatile.

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.

STEPANTEX® ELS88-E is a mild cationic surfactant suitable for formulating household and industrial fabric softeners, ranging from 3% viscous to 18% fluid active concentrations. Sourced from rapeseeds and containing a naturally derived solvent, it can be utilized in naturally derived formulations. This product delivers excellent softening without a greasy feel, along with good antistatic and rewetting properties.

BIO-SOFT® E-847 is a nonionic surfactant that contributes moderate, stable foam and high detergency to applications such as hard surface cleaners, laundry detergents, dishwashers, and hand soaps. Its water solubility and high effectiveness at low concentrations lend versatility, including usage as a dyeing assistant, emulsifier, and wetting agent.

BIO-SOFT® E-678 is a nonionic fatty alcohol ethoxylate surfactant known for its moderate and stable foam, high detergency, and versatility. It finds use in detergents, dishwashing, and hand soaps. This water-soluble surfactant is remarkably effective even at low concentrations and performs well in both warm and hot water applications. It can also function as a dyeing assistant, emulsifier, and wetting agent.

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.

AMMONYX® DO 40 is a decyl amine oxide amphoteric surfactant, is employed in various cleaning applications. It offers low and fast-breaking foam, along with viscosity-building properties. This sulfate-free and preservative-free product serves markets including agricultural solutions, home care, institutional and industrial cleaning, and vehicle care.

BIO-SOFT® S-118 90 HV is a linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid. This anionic surfactant provides excellent detergency and compatibility with other anionic, amphoteric, and nonionic surfactants. It finds application in a variety of household and industrial cleaning applications, including acidic formulations. It can also be used in emulsifiable concentrates, concentrated emulsions, and suspoemulsions for agricultural applications.

MAKON® 17R2 is a nonionic reverse eo/po block copolymer renowned for its fast-breaking, low-foaming, and defoaming attributes. It finds application across diverse industries, including industrial, institutional, pulp and paper, textiles, paints and coatings, and more. Its usage is relevant in metalworking fluids, defoamers, dispersants, industrial lubricants, plasticizers, pulp and paper processing, rinse aids, and textile processing. As with other products in the makon® range, it is a low-ash product.

STEOL® CS-270 L6 CP is an anionic surfactant with high activeness utilized in household, institutional, and industrial cleaning applications. Its versatility extends to personal care products, specifically liquid cleansing. In personal care, it finds its place in various contexts like 2 in 1 shampoo, body wash, degreasers, fine fabric wash, hand dishwashing detergents, pet care, shampoos, shower gel, and more.

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.

STEPANOL® DX-AS165N is a high-active anionic surfactant with excellent foaming properties. It contributes to formulations like bubble baths, liquid hand soaps, shampoos, bath products, and detergents. Derived from natural and plant-based sources, it holds kosher certification and caters to markets encompassing home care, institutional and industrial cleaning, and personal care.

STEOL® 23-2S.30 CP stands as a low-active alkyl ether sulfate, versatile enough to find a home within personal care, household, industrial, and institutional cleaning applications. Its roles span 2-in-1 shampoo, body wash, degreasers, hand dishwashing detergents, hand soaps, and more.

BIO-SOFT® 9966 T is a concentrated biodegradable liquid detergent blend with versatility in hydrogen peroxide-based formulations and as a laundry pre-spotter. It finds application in home care and institutional and industrial cleaning, including hard surface cleaners (dilutable and ready-to-use), kitchen cleaners, and laundry detergents.

BIO-SOFT® N-400 is a nonionic surfactant blend with a low hlb, serving purposes in emulsification and boosting degreasing alongside higher hlb surfactants. It finds its place in hard surface applications, industrial cleaners, and detergents. It exhibits rapid wetting characteristics in comparison to np-4 and can be a substitute for nonylphenol ethoxylates.

STEPANOL® DCFAS-N is an anionic surfactant offering a rapid viscosity response. Its versatility spans applications in dishwashing liquids, laundry detergents, hard surface cleaners, shampoos, body washes, liquid hand soaps, facial cleansers, and bath products. Notably, it meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

NEUTRONYX 656 stands as a nonionic surfactant that excels in wetting, emulsification, and excellent detergent properties. It finds application in household and dishwashing detergents, fine fabric wash, and detergent-disinfectant solutions. Its flexibility is demonstrated by its ability to function as a wetting, emulsifying, or dispersing agent, while remaining stable in both acidic and alkaline solutions.

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.

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.

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.

STEOL® CS-370 L6 CP emerges as a 70% active ether sulfate suitable for personal care applications, as well as household, industrial, and institutional cleaning applications. It finds purpose in various contexts, including 2-in-1 shampoo, body wash, degreasers, hand dishwashing detergents, hand soaps, and more.