Products in HI&I Care: Hydrotrope

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.

STEPANATE® SXS-30 is an anionic surfactant that serves in various capacities, including liquid detergent, heavy-duty cleaning, wax stripping, dishwashing detergent formulations, and textile applications. Its roles encompass functioning as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. The product has been certified as kosher.

STEPANATE® SXS is an anionic surfactant that functions as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. Its applications span liquid detergents, heavy-duty cleaning products, wax stripping formulations, dishwashing detergents, and textile applications. It adheres to the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

STEPANATE® SCS-40-E is a product that serves as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant in heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, dishwashing detergents, and applications within the oil field and metalworking sectors. It is kosher-certified and serves markets including home care, industrial products, and institutional and industrial cleaning.

STEPANATE® AXS is an anionic surfactant providing hydrotropic/solubilizing and coupling properties. It is used in light-duty cleaners, heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, and dishwashing detergents. STEPANATE® AXS can also be used in agricultural and industrial textile applications. The product is kosher-certified.

STEPANATE® SXS-E is an anionic surfactant employed in liquid detergents, heavy-duty cleaning products, wax stripping formulations, and dishwashing detergents. It acts as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. This product belongs to the chemical group of hydrotropic sulfonates, serving roles as an emulsifier, adjuvant, and hydrotrope. It's important to note that this product is also kosher-certified.

ALPHA-STEP® MC-48 is an anionic surfactant derived from oleochemicals, serving as a hydrotrope for solubilizing highly active systems. It exhibits favorable performance in hard water conditions, showcasing tolerance and lime soap dispersing ability. It is a readily soluble liquid with a ph range of 4 to 9, finding applications in household and industrial products.

STEPANATE® SCS takes on multiple roles as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. It's used in various applications, including heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, dishwashing detergents, and metalworking. Its chemical group belongs to hydrotropic sulfonates, and it holds kosher certification.

STEPANATE® SPCS 40 is an anionic surfactant specifically designed for use in liquid detergents, heavy-duty cleaning agents, wax stripping formulations, and dishwashing detergents. It functions as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. Belonging to the chemical group of hydrotropic sulfonates, this product is kosher-certified.

T-Mulz® T9PE is a phosphate ester designed for use in alkaline formulations and hard surface cleaners. It may also be used in concentrated electrolyte solutions to improve salt tolerance. This product also functions as a hydrotrope and is capable of coupling silicates, phosphates, and carbonates into alkaline mixtures. The added benefits of this product are that it provides detergency and improved wetting power to the formulation. It finds application in agricultural tank mix additives as fertilizer-water conditioner formulations.

H Teric Surfactant is a low-foaming amphoteric surfactant providing excellent wetting in strong acid or alkaline systems. Suitable for HI&I cleaners and high-pressure spray applications requiring low foam, it offers hydrotroping, detergency, and rinseability properties.

H-Trope OD is a highly effective anionic hydrotrope derived from natural, non-petroleum-based materials, offering excellent environmental attributes for formulating “green” products. It is more effective than sodium xylene sulfonate, providing strong wetting and detergency properties. Soluble in up to 20% KOH and 15% NaOH, H Trope OD is a moderate foamer suitable for developing vertical foaming cleaners.

T-Mulz® 66H is the potassium salt of an aromatic phosphate ester. It exhibits good solubility in highly alkaline liquid formulations and functions as an efficient hydrotrope for coupling nonionic surfactants into alkaline systems while simultaneously adding detergency and wetting properties. This product is recommended for use in heavy-duty liquid detergents, all-purpose hard surface cleaners, dry cleaning fluids, agricultural formulations, and textile products.

T-Mulz® 844 is a phosphate ester designed for use in alkaline cleaners, textiles in yarn lubricants, and wet processing. This product is used in concentrated electrolyte solutions to improve salt tolerance and as a hydrotrope that provides detergency, wetting, and coupling properties.

H-Soft™ SLDP is a 30% active sodium lauriminodipropionate amphoteric surfactant that produces a stable, slow-draining, dense foam. It has excellent hydrotroping properties in both acidic and alkaline formulations and is compatible with anionic, nonionic, and cationic surfactants.

T-Mulz® 1227 is an alcohol-based phosphate ester designed for use as a hydrotrope that provides detergency, coupling, and improved salt tolerance in alkaline cleaners, yarn lubricants, and concentrated electrolyte solutions. This product is especially effective in removing heavier soils. It has a very fast Draves wetting time, which can enhance the wetting performance of the finished formulation.

T-Mulz® 810 is an alcohol-based phosphate ester designed for use in alkaline cleaners, yarn lubricants, and concentrated electrolyte solutions to improve salt tolerance. This product is also used as a hydrotrope that provides detergency, wetting, and coupling. It is compatible with both anionic and nonionic surfactants.

H-Soft™ 2COSF is a low to moderate foaming caprylic imidazoline-derived amphoteric surfactant, stable in both acid and alkaline systems. It can be used in dry or liquid caustic systems without causing discoloration or losing effectiveness. H-Soft™ 2COSF exhibits multifunctional properties, including excellent wetting, detergency, rinsibility, and hydrotroping.

T-Mulz® 844 M is a phosphate ester designed for use in alkaline cleaners, yarn lubricants, and wet processing. It demonstrates excellent salt tolerance, especially under alkaline conditions. This product also functions well as a hydrotrope and can couple solvent, electrolyte, and surfactant mixtures. Additional benefits of using T-Mulz® 844 M include improved wetting and detergency. This product also finds application as a primary emulsion polymerization surfactant and is well suited to acrylic latexes.

T-Mulz® D6PE is a phosphate ester designed for use in alkaline formulations and hard surface cleaners. It may also be used in concentrated electrolyte solutions to improve salt tolerance. This product functions as a hydrotrope and is capable of coupling silicates, phosphates, and carbonates into alkaline mixtures. The added benefits of this product are that it provides detergency and improved wetting power to the formulation.

T-Mulz® 734-2 KS is the potassium salt of an organic phosphate ester that is designed for use in alkaline cleaners and concentrated electrolyte solutions. It improves salt tolerance and functions as a hydrotrope. This product serves as a coupling agent in conjunction with other surfactants to clarify formulations that might otherwise be inhomogeneous. It also has the ability to improve a formula€™s wetting ability and detergency.

T-Mulz® 800 is an alcohol ethoxylate-based phosphate ester designed for use in alkaline cleaners, yarn lubricants, and concentrated electrolyte solutions. This product is compatible with anionic and nonionic surfactants. It provides improved salt tolerance, functions as a hydrotrope, and gives excellent detergency, wetting, and coupling.

H-Soft™ CYAB is a low-foaming amphoteric surfactant with excellent coupling properties for industrial applications. It offers good detergency for systems requiring high cloud points and effectively hydrotropes nonionic surfactants in systems with moderate electrolyte content. Additionally, H-Soft™ CYAB is free of ethylene oxide, PEGs, and 1,4-dioxane.

H-Soft™ QC -15 is a multifunctional surfactant with anti-static, dispersing, solubilizing, and foaming properties. It serves as an emulsifier, hydrotrope, and degreasing agent for electroplating baths, textile anti-statics, water-based degreasers, automotive and household cleaners, corrosion inhibitors, and personal care products like conditioners and lotions.

Glucodet™ GL-42 is a preservative free, nonionic solution of alkyl polyglucosides. It can be used as the primary surfactant or used with other surfactants to improve foam, solubilization or stability in a wide variety of caustic, neutral or acidic formulations. It is self-preserved due to a high pH level which causes a hazy appearance. This haziness will disappear once neutralized. If the final formulation has a neutral pH it should be preserved in a suitable way. Glucodet™ GL-42 is made from renewable raw materials and is readily biodegradable. It is very mild and low in toxicity.

Harcros Foamer CD is a high-foaming anionic surfactant developed for use in air mist drilling. It is also suitable as a base for high-foaming liquid detergents, scrub soaps, rug shampoos, and all-purpose cleaners. It is a sulfate-ether surfactant based on a linear hydrophobe that has been proven in the industry to be highly biodegradable. This product is soluble and stable in solutions with high electrolyte concentrations.

H-Soft™ NALA is an amphoteric surfactant that produces a stable, dense, slow-draining foam, cleaners and oilfield foamers. It offers excellent hydrotroping in high electrolyte systems and contributes to wetting, detergency, and rinseability.

H-Soft™ AO-8 is 40% active octyl dimethylamine oxide in water, with excellent wetting, solubilizing, and hydrotrope properties and low to moderate foam. It is suitable for anionic, cationic, and nonionic surfactants, and is acid and hypochlorite stable. Its exceptional quality makes it suitable for a wide range of markets and applications.

AG 6206 is a low foaming alkyl glucoside, non-ionic surfactant, based on a short chain fatty alcohol and glucose.

Witconate NAS 88 sodium octane sulfonate is a low foaming hydrotrope, efficient degreaser and wetting agent for many applications. It is direct release, bleach stable and DFE approved. Listed on CleanGredients and Safer Choice.

Ampholak XCE is a non-label amphoteric surfactant hydrotrope and foamer.

Alcosperse 726 is a patented hydrophobically modified copolymer developed to function as a hydrotrope and improve soil release properties. The polymer consists of carboxylated and non-carboxylated monomers with hydrophobic character, aromatic structure and high charge density. Alcosperse 726 offers multifunctional performance characteristics that provide detergency improvement, hydrotropic effects, increased cloud point of nonionic surfactants, outstanding hydrolytic stability and unprecedented surfactant compatibility.

Lankropol 4500 is a Sodium di-(2-EH) sulfosuccinate in ethanol/water.

Ampholak YCE is an amine based salt-free amphoteric of propionate type. It is salt free, alkaline stable, and offers good alkali tolerance. It is used in a range of applications, including industrial fluids/lubricants and household/industrial cleaning.

Berol SurfBoost AD15 is an amide ethoxylate.

Petro S Powder is a table in high and low pH, coupling/dispersing agents.