Products in Surface Care

XIAMETER(TM) PMX-0246 Cyclohexasiloxane is a blend of volatile polydimethylcyclosiloxane composed of cyclopentasiloxane and cyclohexasiloxane. This product is clear, tasteless, essentially odorless, non-greasy, and non-stinging. It is a low-viscosity cyclohexasiloxane fluid for use in skincare, suncare, color cosmetics, hair care, and antiperspirant/deodorant applications.

XIAMETER(TM) PMX-200 Silicone Fluid 12,500 cSt is a high-viscosity polydimethylsiloxane polymer manufactured to yield essentially linear polymers in a wide range of viscosities. The viscosities generally used in formulating polishes are in the range of 100 to 30,000 cSt. It is preferable to use a blend of a low-viscosity fluid and a high-viscosity fluid (e.g. 3 parts XIAMETER(TM) PMX- 200 Silicone Fluid 100 cSt and 1 part XIAMETER(TM) PMX-200 Silicone Fluid 12,500 cSt) to obtain optimum results in terms of ease of application and depth of gloss. The low-viscosity silicone fluid acts as a lubricant to make polish application and rubout easier, whereas the high-viscosity silicone fluid produces a greater depth of gloss. Since these polymers are inherently water-repellent, they will cause water to bead up on a treated surface rather than penetrate the polish film.

XIAMETER(TM) OFX-0193 Fluid is a silicone polyether copolymer with a HLB value of 12, as calculated using the wt% of the EO/5 method. This graft-style, hydrolytically stable silicone polyether surfactant has applications in hair sprays and other leave-in hair products, shampoos, skin care lotions, and shaving soaps.

XIAMETER(TM) PMX-200 Silicone Fluid 5 cSt is a polydimethylsiloxane fluid. It is commonly used as a base fluid in personal care products due to its excellent spreading characteristics. This product is clear, tasteless, essentially odorless, and non-greasy. Being a commercial bulk-polymerized dimethyl silicone fluid, it typically contains trace amounts of impurities.

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.

STEOL® CS-230 HP MZ is a sodium lauryl ether sulfate derived from fatty alcohols, ethoxylated to an average of two moles, and sulfated via Stepan's continuous SO3 process. This continuous sulfation process ensures consistent, high purity, affording excellent reproducibility in formulations utilizing STEOL® CS-230 HP MZ.

BIO-SOFT® DR-13 is a versatile nonionic surfactant ideal for degreasing, wetting, and solubilization. It is well-suited for outdoor cleaners in applications like car and boat washes. Approved for direct release according to the u.S. Epa safer choice standard, it adheres to safety and environmental standards.

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.

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.

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.

NACCONOL® 40G is a powdered, 40% active sodium salt of linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid that boasts high foaming, rapid wetting, and emulsification properties. It is a versatile choice for various cleaning formulations where foam is desirable. Its powdered nature lends itself well to high-active and powder formulations, as well as applications in construction products like concrete admixtures, firefighting foams, and dust control additives.

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.

NACCONOL® 90G is a high-active sodium salt of linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid, renowned for its high foaming, fast wetting, and emulsification attributes. It finds use in cleaning formulations where foam is desirable and is versatile enough to be used in high-active, powder formulations, as well as construction products like concrete admixtures, firefighting foams, and dust control additives.

MAKON® P104 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer that excels in oil-in-water emulsification. Its application spans across multiple industries, including agriculture, industry, paints, and coatings. Its contribution is prominent in agricultural pesticide formulations, as well as serving as a dispersant and oil-in-water emulsifier.

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.

MAKON® TD-30 is a nonionic surfactant with applications across a wide range of household and institutional (h&i) and agricultural formulations. Similar to other makon® products, it can be utilized as an hlb variable and belongs to the category of tridecyl alcohol etheroxylates. Its functions include being an emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. This product is kosher-certified.

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.

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.

MAKON® P105 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer that exhibits good oil-in-water emulsification properties. It can be used in a variety of markets, including agriculture, industrial, and paints and coatings. Applications for best fit are agricultural pesticide formulations, dispersants, emulsifiers, and industrial cleaning.

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.

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.

AMPHOSOL® CG-50 is a 37% active form of cocamidopropyl betaine derived from coconut oil. This high-active, mild amphoteric surfactant functions as a secondary surfactant, foam booster, and viscosity builder across personal care products, hard surface cleaning, vehicle care, and specialty foaming applications. It aligns with the surfactant screen of the u.S. Epa safer choice program and is listed on cleangredients.

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.

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.

STEPGROW® LT stands out as a tank cleaner meticulously formulated for agricultural tank mixes. Its classification places it among surfactants. Its versatile functions encompass being a solvent and adjuvant. It sees application in both formulated adjuvants and ready-to-use (rtu) contexts. Within the market sphere, it caters to agricultural solutions and holds a presence in the hi&i care sector. This product comes in liquid form.

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.

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.

STEPFAC™ 8180 serves as an ethoxylated phosphate ester with a broad spectrum of applications within the agricultural domain. It falls within the chemical group of ethoxylated phosphate ester phosphate ester and fulfills functions as a dispersant, textile antistatic agent, emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. Its versatile usage covers capsule suspensions (cs), concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metal working applications, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), oil in water emulsions (ew), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), tank mix adjuvants, and textile wet processing.

STEPFAC™ 8181 stands as an ethoxylated phosphate ester that holds significance across a variety of agricultural applications. It belongs to the chemical group of ethoxylated phosphate esters and phosphate esters, functioning as a dispersant, emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. Its application scope encompasses capsule suspensions (cs), concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), oil in water emulsions (ew), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), and tank mix adjuvants.

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-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.

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.

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.