Colonial Chemical Cola®Teric CAHS, a mild, biodegradable amphoteric surfactant suitable for all types of foaming cleansers. With this new product, the company is growing its offering of sustainable amphoteric products.
Ideal Replacement for Amphoacetate
Cola®Teric CAHS lowers overall irritation when used in formulation with commonly used primary
surfactants. The new product is an ideal replacement for amphoacetate chemistry, offering higher biorenewable content, improved compatibility with hard water, and higher purity. Cola®Teric CAHS is especially well suited for gentle personal care products.
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Our industry still has a distance to go in terms of improving sustainability of secondary surfactants. A lot of the new product development in the surfactant arena has been geared towards primary surfactants. Secondary surfactants, while generally naturally derived, still contain significant portions of petrochemical feedstocks – up to 40% of secondary surfactants can be petrochemical in origin,” said Dennis Abbeduto, business manager for Personal Care Products, Colonial Chemical.
Improves Foam and Viscosity Boosting
Cola®Teric CAHS offers identical foam performance when compared to a standard cocoamphoacetate. In-vitro eye irritation testing demonstrates that the product would be considered minimally irritating at typical formulation levels.
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By utilizing the same intermediates as sultaines, we can produce amphoacetate analogs with higher biobased proportions along with improvements in other properties, such as higher solids, lower irritation, and better compatibility with hard water and soaps,” said Abbeduto.
Cola®Teric CAHS offers superior viscosity building capability compared to traditional amphoacetates and is useful in luxury body washes to provide mildness and foam stabilization, in shampoos for improved foam and viscosity boosting, and in facial cleansers for its excellent skin feel. Cola®Teric CAHS also provides wet wipe formulations with exceptionally mild foaming and cleansing.
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But certainly one of the most important aspects of this chemistry is that it avoids the presence of Dichloroacetic Acid, which is on the California Prop 65 list and does not have a safe harbor limit. We have a lot of customers who are looking for ingredients without any Prop 65 contaminants, and Cola®Teric CAHS is an opportunity to fill that important niche,” added Abbeduto.
Source: Colonial Chemical