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Univar Solutions is proud to partner with Kao Chemicals Europe, a subsidiary of the Kao Corporation. Kao Chemicals Europe is renowned for its innovative, high-quality chemical products that span across various industries, including personal care, home care, and industrial applications. This partnership underscores Univar Solutions' commitment to delivering sustainable and advanced chemical solutions to its customers worldwide.

Kao Chemicals Europe stand at the forefront of chemical innovation, leveraging cutting-edge research and development to create eco-friendly and efficient products. With sustainability as a core principle, Kao Chemicals Europe work tirelessly to develop products that not only meet the high standards of performance but also contribute to a sustainable future. This aligns perfectly with Univar Solutions' sustainability goals, making this partnership a powerful force in driving environmental stewardship in the chemical industry.

Beauty and Personal Care

One of the key sectors that benefit from the collaboration between Univar Solutions and Kao Chemicals Europe is the personal care industry. Kao Chemicals Europe offer a wide range of surfactants, emulsifiers, and conditioning agents that are essential for creating high-quality personal care products. These ingredients are designed to enhance product performance while ensuring environmental compatibility. Univar Solutions, with its extensive distribution network and deep market insights, ensures that these innovative ingredients are accessible to personal care manufacturers around the globe.

Homecare

In the realm of home care, Kao Chemicals Europe provide a variety of surfactants and specialty chemicals that are crucial for developing effective and sustainable cleaning products. These ingredients are formulated to achieve superior cleaning performance without compromising on safety and environmental standards. Through its partnership with Kao Chemicals Europe, Univar Solutions offers home care manufacturers access to these advanced chemical solutions, enabling them to meet the growing consumer demand for eco-friendly and high-performance cleaning products.

Product Lines

AKYPO® FOAM LM 25 - Rich & creamy foaming surfactant, effective for sulfate-free formulations.

AKYPO® FOAM LM 25 is an anionic surfactant that offers all the properties required for ultra-mild cleansing products.

The new AKYPO® FOAM LM 25 Potassium Laureth-4 Carboxylate was developed with the aim of obtaining a special texture. The product has been designed to achieve a luxurious foam, with a very small bubble size and high foam consistency. Despite being an anionic surfactant, it is gentle on the skin and eyes. When used as a secondary surfactant, it reduces irritation and improves the foam quality of the formulation.

Applications

Face & body liquid soaps
Shampoo, sulfate-free, creamy & soft, rich foam
Surfactant systems
Shower gel, shower cream
Ultra-mild shaving cream

Grades

Ultra-mild surfactant
High concentration ≈60%
Soft & creamy foam texture
Micro-bubble size
Clear formulations
Easy to thicken
Flowable gel
Unpreserved
No influence of pH on formula viscosity

Characteristics

INCI Name: Potassium Laureth-4 Carboxylate
Chemical family: Polyoxyethylene alkylether carboxylates
Appearance: Colourless to pale yellowish flowable paste
Usage levels: starting at 1%
Active matter: 35-39%
pH range: 10,0 – 13,0
ISO 16128: 0.65 Natural Origin index
Halal compliance

Akypo®rox CO 400

PEG-40 hydrogenated castor oil is used in cosmetics as a solubiliser, emulsifier, surfactant and emollient. It is derived from Castor oil and is useful in producing products that disperse in water whilst offering good moisturising properties.

Applications

Oral Care
Hair Care
Skin Care

Grades

Non-ionic emulsifier for emulsion-polymerization
Excellent wetting properties
Ethoxylated fatty alcohol

Characteristics

INCI: PEG-40 hydrogenated castor oil
Active matter %: 59 - 61
Water content % (KF; %): 39- 41
pH (5% in H2O): 7 - 9

AMIDET® A/17

Due to its non-ionic character, it is compatible with other anionic, cationic, or amphoteric surfactants. AMIDET® A/17 is also a good solubilizer for active ingredients.

Applications

Hair Car
Color Care

Grades

Non-Ionic surfactant
Vegetable origin
Emulsifier and detergent
Liquid at room temperature (20ºC)

Characteristics

INCI: PEG-5 Cocamide
pH (5% in water): 9 - 10
VISCOSITY (25ºC, cP): Max. 400
MELTING POINT (ºC): Approx +14
CLOUD POINT (1B, °C): Min. 84
WATER SOLUBILITY (20°C): Soluble
CHARACTER: Non-Ionic

AKYPO® SUGAR LM-42 RSPO MB - New mild, natural and versatile surfactant with superior foam.

Trends in Personal Care come and go, but there is one trend that will never go away: mild cleansing ingredients. In addition, it is essential to have a good environmental profile and to meet consumer requirements like Sulfate-Free, PEG-Free, highly natural and COSMOS. If we furthermore include a highly performing surfactant, then we can ensure a successful formulation development.

AKYPO® SUGAR LM-42 RSPO MB (INCI: Sodium Lauryl Glucose Carboxylate, Lauryl Glucoside) an anionic surfactant addressing most of consumers demands. Offers efficient cleansing, excellent lathering, and extremely mild properties to hair, skin, and eyes. This new Kao product offers, as well, an excellent environmental profile and high performing properties for Personal Care, fulfilling with COSMOS certifications. It provides outstanding mildness for skin and hair, and good lathering, which makes it ideal to formulate shampoos, body washes, facial cleansers, and baby care products. Additionally, it has a low dependency on pH, which allows it to maintain good transparency, foaming, and easy thickening properties even at acidic pH levels. The combination of these properties makes AKYPO® SUGAR LM-42 RSPO MB an excellent choice to successfully develop Sulfate-Free formulations, even if it is used as primary or secondary surfactant.

Applications

Shampoo
Body Wash
Face Cleanser
Baby Care products

Benefits

96% Natural Origin Content (ISO 16128)
Readily biodegradable (aerobic and anaerobic)
Nonaquatic toxicity
COSMOS approved
Sulfate free and EO free (1,4- Dioxane free)
High performance surfactant
Extremely mild to skin and eyes
Easily thickened with natural thickeners
Wide pH range stability
High foam profile in formulation Primary or secondary surfactant

Characteristics

INCI: Sodium Lauryl Glucose Carboxylate, Lauryl Glucoside
Active matter %: 33 - 39
Water content % (calculated 100% dry matter): 58 - 62
pH (10% in H2O): 11.5 - 12.5
ISO 16128: 96%
Biodegradability: Readily biodegradable

BETADET® S-20

There’s an ever-growing awareness over consumers of rinse-off products to buy the correct one for their skin. Babies, elders, people with sensitive epidermis... all of them need very mild formulations to avoid dryness, itchiness or even rashes on their skin. The mildness of amphoteric surfactants is well known but hydroxysultaines are especially mild to the eyes and skin.

BETADET® S-20 is recommended as secondary surfactants for very mild and high foaming products, achieving higher foam volumes than alkyl betaines or alkyl amidopropyl betaines. These products are easier to thicken when combined with SLES, thus reducing the amount of electrolytes needed to obtain a desired viscosity compared to other amphoteric surfactants. Hydroxysultaines show excellent stability at extreme pH’s thus allowing their use in cosmetics formulations were alkali (i.e. depilatories) or acid media are neces- sary. Very stable to hard water, improving the behavior of some sensitive anionic surfactants under extreme conditions. Additionally, BETADET® S-20 shows a highlighted ability to reduce the freezing point of final formulations making them more stable at low temperatures, which helps to obtain clear stable final products.

Applications

Oral Care
Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Vegetable origin
Preservative-free
Biodegradable
Compatible with anionic, non-ionic, and cationic surfactants
Provide excellent thickening
Foam booster and foam stabilizer
Extremely mild for the eyes and skin
Stable at a wide range of pH and temperatures
Good ecotoxicological profile
Biocidal activity

Characteristics

INCI: Lauryl Hydroxysultaine
Appearance (25ºC) Colorless to light yellow transparent liquid
Dry Matter (%) 43 - 47
Viscosity (20ºC, cP) < 50
pH 6.0 - 8.0 (1% in water)

BETADET® SHR

Very mild co-surfactants for personal care formulations

BETADET® SHR is recommended as secondary surfactants for very mild and high foaming products, achieving higher foam volumes than alkyl betaines or alkyl amidopropyl betaines. These products are easier to thicken when combined with SLES, thus reducing the amount of electrolytes needed to obtain a desired viscosity compared to other amphoteric surfactants. Hydroxysultaines show excellent stability at extreme pH’s thus allowing their use in cosmetics formulations were alkali (i.e. depilatories) or acid media are neces- sary. Very stable to hard water, improving the behavior of some sensitive anionic surfactants under extreme conditions.

Applications

Oral Care
Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Vegetable origin
Preservative-free
Biodegradable
Compatible with anionic, non-ionic, and cationic surfactants
Provide excellent thickening
Foam booster and foam stabilizer
Extremely mild for the eyes and skin
Stable at a wide range of pH and temperatures
Good ecotoxicological profile
Biocidal activity

Characteristics

INCI: Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine
Appearance (25ºC) Colorless to light yellow transparent liquid
Dry Matter (%) 49 - 51
Viscosity (20ºC, cP) < 200
pH 7.0 - 8.0 (as it is)

DANOX® HC-30

Your partner for a more sustainable and efficient hair-conditioning

DANOX® HC-30 is a ready-to use conditioning agent, based on a synergistic combination of cationic surfactants and fatty alcohol that allows a single-step formulation process.

Applications

2 in 1 shampoo
Cleansing conditioner
Shampoo & conditioner bar
Hair conditioner rinse-off and leave-on

Characteristics

INCI Name: Behenamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Dipalmitoylethyl Hydroxyethylmonium Methosulfate, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol and Lactic Acid
Chemical family: Proprietary mixture
Appearance: White pellets
Cationic active matter (% Ew=680): 30-34%
Fatty alcohol content: 66-70%
Recommended dosage: Between 2.5% and 12%

Grades

Hair-conditioning system
Vegetable origin & environmentally friendly
Good compatibility
Optimized performance: detangling, combing force and antistatic effect
Two-in-one product
Ready to use & easy to handle

DANOX® P-15

Pearling agents are widely used in cleansing cosmetic products to improve their appearance. When they are added to a formulation, a white product with a high shiny and brilliant appearance is obtained, giving them a rich and luxurious look.

DANOX® P-15 has a pale pink shade pearled appearance that disappears with time, light and temperature and that doesn’t affect the final formula. Easily dispersible at room temperature in all type of surface-active compositions. Compatible with all types of surface-active agents: anionic, non-ionic, or amphoteric.

Compatible with other type of final appearance modifiers, as acrylates or others. Its anionic character contributes to the final detergent power of the composition where it is included. Its non-ionic component complements the emollient and lubricating power of the formula where it is included. Its current percentage of use is between 2% and 6%, but higher quantities can be used after checking the stability. Even though many stability tests with DANOX® P-15 at different concentrations and using different surface-active compositions (based on SLES, AOS, Alkyl Carboxylates, Sulphosuccinates, etc) have been done without troubles, it is always advisable to check stability in each definitive composition.

DANOX® P-15 presents an additional thickening effect, which allows reducing the content of other thickening additives in the final composition.

Applications

Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Gives a brilliant white pearly shine appearance
Excellent opacifying effect
Cold-processable
Easy to handle, pump and disperse
Improves thickening

Characteristics

INCI: Glycol Distearate / Sodium Laureth Sulfate / Cocamide MEA
Appearance (20ºC): Pearled white fluid paste with pale pink shades
Dry Matter (%): 39 - 41
Viscosity (20ºC, cP): 12,000 max.
pH 3.5 - 4.5 (as it is)

ANOX® PL-10

DANOX® PL-10 is a unique pearling concentrated product developed by Kao Chemicals Europe. Composition is based on SLES as anionic surfactant, Glycol Distearate as the pearling wax and a Kao specialty, LEVENOL® H&B (Glycereth-2 Cocoate), which provides thickening properties, enhances the foam, and improves skin and hair condition due to its emollient properties. DANOX® PL-10 is normally used in a concentration range from 2 to 6%. Depending on the dosage, the result would be a brilliant, shiny, silky, or coarse/fine appearance. The intensity of the pearling effect is also dependent on the use concentration. DANOX® PL-10 optimal use concentration is 3% to obtain a balanced opacifying and pearling effect in cleansing products, although lower and higher quantities can be used after checking the stability.

Applications

Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Gives a silky, pearly, glossy appearance
Highly concentrated
Preservative-free
Cold-processable
Easy to handle, pump and disperse
Foam booster
Improves thickening
Not tested on animals
Environmentally friendly
Fulfills EU Ecolabel criteria

Characteristics

INCI: Glycereth-2 Cocoate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycol Distearate
Appearance (20ºC): Pearled white fluid paste
Dry Matter (%): 50 - 54
Viscosity (20ºC, cP): 10,000 max.
pH 4.0 - 5.0 (as it is)

EMAL 10N

Excels in producing rich, thick lather

A tried and trusted anionic surfactant known for its superior foaming and cleansing abilities. Frequently used in personal care and cleaning products, it excels in producing rich, thick lather. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate also provides excellent emulsifying action, assisting in mixing oil and water-based components. Enjoy enhanced cleaning efficacy and foam production with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, a key ingredient in creating effective, high-quality formulations.

Applications

Oral Care
Hair Care

Benefits

Foaming
Emulsifier
Dispersing agent
Solubilizer

Characteristics

INCI: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
Appearance: White needles
Active matter %: 95 min
Water content (%, 3h at 70ºC): 4 max.
pH (1% in H2O): 7.5 – 10.5

EMAL 40TE

Used in personal care products as main surfactant or combined with SLES

A tried and trusted anionic surfactant known for its superior foaming and cleansing abilities. Frequently used in personal care and cleaning products, it excels in producing rich, thick lather. Also provides excellent emulsifying action, assisting in mixing oil and water-based components. Enjoy enhanced cleaning efficacy and foam production, a key ingredient in creating effective, high-quality formulations.

Applications

Skin Care
Hair Care

Benefits

Foaming
Emulsifier
Dispersing agent
Solubilizer

Characteristics

INCI: TEA Lauryl Sulfate
Appearance: Yelowish Transparent Liquid
Active matter (%, Ew = 424): 39 - 41
pH (10% in H2O): 7.0 – 7.5

EMANON® EV-E

EMANON® EV-E belongs to a new generation of non-ionic surfactants useful in many different cosmetic Applications, being suitable for both rinse-off and leave-on products in hair and body care Applications.

EMANON® EV-E by KAO Chemicals Europe

Over the last few years, market trends have reflected a special interest in incorporating natural origin ingredients such as moisturizing oils, vitamins, or extracts into shower creams, and silicones for hair care. EMANON® EV-E is in line with market trends because it helps incorporate oils and silicones into shower creams and shampoos, improving the foam and delivering active agents to the skin and hair. It is suitable for both rinse-off and leave-on products. In shower products and shampoos, EMANON® EV-E is the key ingredient for achieving better foamability. In addition, its high HLB value makes EMANON® EV-E suitable as a co-emulsifier in hair conditioners, as a cold emulsifier in creams and as a main surfactant in wet wipes and make-up removers.

Applications

Shampoo
Body Wash
Face Cleanser
Hair Care

Grades

Environmentally friendly
Vegetable origin
Liquid
100% active
No water or solvents (VOCs)
Free of by-products
Colorless and odorless
Water-soluble
Unpreserved
Biodegradable
HLB ≈ 16

Characteristics

INCI: Glycereth-7 Caprylate/Caprate
Appearance: Transparent Liquid
pH (5% in H2O): 5 - 7
HLB (calculated): Approx. 16
Density (20ºC, g/mL, “spot”): Approx. 1.11\
Viscosity (20ºC, cP): Max. 300

EMANON® HE- Emollients play a key role in moisturizing and are among the most common ingredients used in personal care formulations.

EMANON® HE is a re-fatting agent for bath gels, shampoos, and hydro-alcoholic products. Main functions: co-emulsifier, conditioning agent, emollient, and hydrating. Recommended use: 1% approx. in shampoos and bath gels formulas. Its use can affect to the final viscosity of the formula (lower viscosity). It is a product soluble in both alcohol and water. It can be used as excipient in creams and transparent ointments, and in pharmaceutical preparations as a solvent. Due to its non-ionic character, it is compatible with other anionic, cationic, or amphoteric surfactants.

Applications

Hair care
Skin care

Benefits

52% Natural Origin Content (ISO 16128)
Co-emulsifier
Conditioning agent
Emollient
Hydrating
Soluble in both alcohol and water

Characteristics

INCI: PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate
Appearance: Transparent liquid
Density (20°C, g/mL, “spot”): Approx. 1.045
Viscosity (20°C, cP): < 300

EXCEPARL® LM-LC

A natural liquid EO-free thickener derived from renewable sources and Organic UV filter solubilizer: 100% natural & 100% effective

EXCEPARL® LM-LC is a 100% active, biodegradable, clear, odourless and colourless liquid, which is easy to handle and can be processed at room temperature.

Additionally, EXCEPARL® LM-LC is a mild product with some emollient and conditioning properties for skin and hair due to its hydrophobic Characteristics, and with no detrimental effect on the foaming behaviour of the formulations. Due to its chemical nature, EXCEPARL® LM-LC is a good choice for many PEG and/or Sulfate-free rinse-off formulations.

The addition of EXCEPARL® LM-LC to a final formulation allows a reduction in the percentage of sodium chloride (NaCl) necessary to achieve the desired viscosity. The balance between EXCEPARL® LM-LC and NaCl can be easily adjusted depending on the composition. EXCEPARL® LM-LC shows excellent thickening properties, outperforming other commonly used thickeners such as Cocamide DEA, the most widely used thickener, or Laureth-4. A smaller amount of it is required.

Applications

Semi-permanent tattoos and colour cosmetics
Colour cosmetics and skin care products:
Face care
Premium body care

Grades

Thickening ability for sulfate and sulfate-free surfactant system
Shear thinning flow behaviour
Viscosity stabilizer in a wide range of pH and temperatures
Excellent organic UV filter solubilizer

Characteristics

INCI Name: Lauryl Lactate
Appearance: clear, odourless and colourless liquid
Biodegradable
Vegetable Origin
Mild & Safe Product
High Concentration
PEG-, Nitrogen- & Salt-Free
Solvent-Free

FINDET® ARH-52 - Fragrance & extracts solubilizer in accordance with European Pharmacopoeia

PEG-40 hydrogenated castor oil is used in cosmetics as a solubilizer, emulsifier, surfactant and emollient. It is derived from Castor oil and is useful in producing products that disperse in water whilst offering good moisturizing properties.

Applications

Oral Care
Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Non-ionic emulsifier for emulsion-polymerization
Excellent wetting properties
Ethoxylated fatty alcohol
Suitable for carbon black and lipophilic pigments
Fulfils the requirements of European Pharmacopoeia

Characteristics

INCI: PEG-40 hydrogenated castor oil
Appearance: Viscous liquid to soft paste, slightly yellowish
Active matter %: 100
pH (10% in H2O): 6 - 7

KALCOL 6098

Fatty alcohol used as consistency agent in emulsions and conditioners. Emulsion Stabilizer. Opacifying Agent. Viscosity Increaser.

Fatty alcohols are key materials in the oleochemical field. Their derivatives play numerous and important roles in both consumer and industrial chemical products. They occur as primary or secondary alcohols containing alkyl chains with unsaturated bonds or methyl branching groups. The physical form of fatty alcohols is highly dependent on the chain length, amount of unsaturation and methyl branching.

Applications

Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Thickening and suspension agent in emulsions
Viscosity increaser
Opacifier agent in shampoos
No toxic product

Characteristics

INCI: Cetyl alcohol
Appearance: White Beads; Possible presence of lumps easy to break
ALKYL CHAIN (%):
- C14: Max. 1
- C16: Max. 98
- C18: Max. 1

KALCOL 6850

Fatty alcohol used as consistency agent in emulsions and conditioners. Emulsion Stabilizer. Opacifying Agent. Viscosity Increaser.

Applications

Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Thickening and suspension agent in emulsions
Viscosity increaser
Opacifier agent in shampoos
No toxic product

Characteristics

INCI: Cetearyl Alcohol
Appearance: White Beads; Possible presence of lumps easy to break
ALKYL CHAIN (%):
- ≤ C14: Max. 3
- C16: Max. 45 - 55
- C18: Max. 45 - 55
- ≤ C20: Max. 3

KALCOL 8098 - Vegetable origin fatty alcohol with emulsifying properties

Applications

Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Thickening and suspension agent in emulsions
Viscosity increaser
Opacifier agent in shampoos
No toxic product

Characteristics

INCI: Cetyl alcohol
Appearance: White Beads; Possible presence of lumps easy to break
ALKYL CHAIN (%):
- C14: Max. 1
- C16: Max. 98
- >C18: Max. 1

KAOPAN® TW-IS399S

Strong thickener effective for sulfate-free formulations

Hydrophilic non-ionic surfactant and thickener, specially designed for very mild cleansing systems that may lead to viscosity problems. Preservative-free, no salt content.

Applications

Face & body liquid soaps
Shampoo
Surfactant systems
Shower gel

Grades

Easy-to-use viscous liquid
Highly concentrated
Excellent for sulfate-free formulations
Efficient viscosity enhancer
Cold-processable
Preservative-free
No impact on foaming
No influence of pH on formula viscosity

Characteristics

INCI: PEG-160 Sorbitan Triisostearate
Viscous yellow liquid
Usage levels: 0.5-3%
pH range: 5 - 8
Halal compliance

LEVENOL® H&B - Green emollient for personal care mild formulations.

LEVENOL® H&B is a glyceryl ester derivative. It is very mild and has emollient, moisturizing, thickening, and foam boosting properties, which makes it a very good all-in-one cosurfactant. It also has a good ecotoxicological profile. It is liquid and has no risk/safety warnings, what makes it easy to handle and cold processable.

It is very common to add emollients to cosmetic formulations to improve their sensorial properties. With LEVENOL® H&B this addition to cleansing products does not cause any problems regarding viscosity or foam, which is usually the case when using other emollients. LEVENOL® H&B acts as a high-performing emollient, better than the most widely used glyceryl ester derivatives in the market, while boosting both the viscosity and foam behavior of the formula. Successfully develop Sulfate-Free formulations, even if it is used as primary or secondary surfactant.

Applications

Moisturizing cream
Anionic-free shower gel
Anti-dandruff shampoo
Ultra-mild bath gel

Grades

Good eco-toxological profile
Boosting effect on UV filters
Ultra-mild formulations
Foaming ability
Viscosity building properties
Mildness
Emollient & moisturizing effect

Characteristics

INCI Name: Glycereth-2 Cocoate
Appearance: Transparent liquid
Active Matter: 100%
HLB (calculated): Approx. 11
Viscosity (20°C, cP): approx. 450

QUARTAMIN® 60W25

Hair Conditioners are used to confer Benefits on hair. They facilitate hair combing, enhance gloss and smoothness, provide antistatic properties, and improve hair manageability. Cationic surfactants are the main components of hair conditioners; they are effectively deposited on the hair surface and condition the hair thanks to the hydrophobic nature of the alkyl rest and to the cationic charge of the polar head group.

Monoalkylquats continue to be the most used cationic surfactants in hair rinses, although it is also known that these products present limitations about their ecotoxicity properties. In addition, the short-medium alkyl chain quats type is in liquid form at room temperature, which makes them easy to handle and cold processable. The QUARTAMIN® 60 range acts as a medium performing conditioner but is very good for the fine, Caucasian, and natural hair type. Even though the final viscosity increases over time, the types of fatty alcohol used, and the addition of an emulsifier play a predominant role in viscosity. With pure fatty alcohols, the viscosity obtained is lower than with Cetearyl Alcohol.

Applications

Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Conditioning agent
Antistatic
Thickener

Characteristics

INCI: Cetrimonium Chloride
Appearance (10ºC): Hazy and slightly viscous liquid
Appearance (-5ºC): Solid
Active matter (%, Ew. (g/mol) =321.5): 24 - 26
pH (25% in H2O): 5 - 6.5
ISO 16128: 96%

QUARTAMIN® 60W25-R

Applications

Hair Care

Benefits

Conditioning agent
Antistatic
Thickener

Characteristics

INCI: Cetrimonium Chloride
Appearance (20ºC): Colorless Transparent Liquid
Appearance (10ºC): Hazy and slightly viscous liquid
Appearance (-5ºC): Solid
Active matter (Ew.: 319.5): 24 - 26
pH (as it is): 2.5 – 3.5

QUARTAMIN® AB

QUARTAMIN® AB is Behentrimonium Chloride supplied in pellet form at a concentration of 80%. The fatty alcohol used in a basic hair conditioner formulation has a positive impact, not only on the viscosity of final product, but also on combing in wet conditions, as can be seen from the results shown in the graphs, where the cationic range was 1-2% a.m. and fatty alcohol range, 1-6% a.m., with the 1/1-1/3 (cationic/fatty alcohol) ratio being the best. The lowest wet combing forces are obtained with 1.5% a.m. QUARTAMIN® AB and 3% KALCOL® 6850, with the viscosity being 25,000 cP, which matches market requirements.

Applications

Hair Care
Skin Care

Benefits

Conditioning agent
Antistatic
Thickener
Suitable for all hair types
High performance
Hot processable

Characteristics

INCI: Behentrimonium Chloride
Appearance (20ºC): White to slightly yellowish solid in pellets
Active matter (meq/g): 1.95 – 2.1
ISO 16128: 79%

QUARTAMIN® 60L

QUARTAMIN® 60L: anti-static, softener, and conditioner in hair formulations.

Applications

Hair Care

Benefits

Conditioning agent
Antistatic
Thickener

Characteristics

INCI: Cetrimonium Chloride
Appearance (20ºC): Transparent Liquid
Active matter (%, Ew.:320): 48 - 50
pH (10% in H2O): 6 - 8.5
ISO 16128: 96%

RHEODOL 430V -Emulsifier for oil-based cleansers

RHEODOL 430V is an emulsifier for oil-based cleansers. It allows oils to turn into milky white when in contact with water for easy rinsability.

Applications

Cleansing oil
Cleansing balm

Benefits

Compatibility with polar oi
Good solubilizer