Cetrimonium Chloride 50%: a new product in Macler's portfolio

Macler continues to expand its portfolio to offer increasingly comprehensive solutions for the industry. The latest addition is Cetrimonium Chloride 50%, a versatile cationic surfactant that combines conditioning and excellent substantivity.

What is Cetrimonium Chloride 50%?

Cetrimonium Chloride 50%, also known as Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Chloride or CCTA or CETAC, is a quaternary ammonium compound in hydroalcoholic solution. Its origin is either natural and synthetic or purely synthetic: its production typically uses products derived vegetable oils, such as palm oil and palm kernel oil, followed by chemical reactions that quaternize the product.

It acts as a cationic surfactant, meaning it has a natural affinity for negatively charged surfaces, such as hair fibers, fabrics, and even solid surfaces. This characteristic ensures efficient adhesion and a prolonged effect, making it an important active ingredient in different sectors.

Main benefits

• Antistatic effects: an excellent option for applications that promote a conditioning effect. Improves detangling, feel, and shine of the hair.
• Emulsifying capacity: It is a powerful emulsifying agent, with a good ability to emulsify a wide variety of oils in water.
• Low foaming: ideal for applications excessive foaming is undesirable.
• Substantivity: it forms a film that remains on the surface, prolonging its effects.

Where to apply

Cetrimonium Chloride 50% is highly versatile and can be used in a variety of formulations across different industries.

COSMETICS

• Hair conditioners and masks: One of the main conditioning agents in the cosmetics industry. It adheres to hair strands, neutralizing negative charges left by shampoo, ensuring detangling, softness, frizz reduction, shine, and anti-static action. In masks, it enhances the repairing and nourishing effect, forming a protective film over the hair.

SANITIZERS

• Emulsions: It functions as a cationic emulsifier or co-emulsifier in oil/water systems. It stabilizes the emulsion through electrostatic repulsion between the droplets.
• Fabric softeners: act as a conditioning cationic agent that binds to textile fibers, reducing roughness. It provides a soft touch, an antistatic effect, and a better drape of fabrics. It facilitates the ironing process and contributes to greater comfort in use. Despite this, it has less pronounced efficiency than the active ingredients traditionally used in this application, such as Dialkyl Dimethyl Ammonium Chloride and Esterquat. Cetrimonium Chloride has been widely used in fabric softeners as an emulsifier for Cetostearyl Alcohol, used as a thickening agent in cold-process fabric softener bases. Both Cetrimonium Chloride and Cetostearyl Alcohol are low-performance agents in fabric softeners, being more suitable for application as conditioning agents.

AGRO

• Suspension stabilizer: It acts as a dispersing aid, helping to keep solid particles in uniform suspension. It prevents sedimentation in liquid formulations, such as fertilizers and pesticides.
• Pre and Post-Dipping: In pre-dipping, it helps sanitize teats before milking, reducing the microbial load. In post-dipping, it combines antimicrobial action with a skin conditioning effect, helping to prevent mastitis.

TEXTILE

• Antistatic agents: They adhere to fibers, neutralizing accumulated electrical charges. It reduces static electricity in synthetic fabrics, improving usability and reducing discomfort. It can be applied in textile finishing processes and in garment care products.

WATER TREATMENT

• Flocculating agent: Cetrimonium chloride is a substance that can coagulate proteins, facilitating their separation.

Why buy Cetrimonium Chloride Macler?

By choosing Macler's 50% Cetrimonium Chloride, you can be assured a product with the TrustScan seal. This rigorous procedure ensures concentration, purity, and compliance with product specifications through physicochemical analyses and applications in standard formulas. This means that each batch supplied is guaranteed to meet the quality standards required for your industry.

Furthermore, you have access to Macler's specialized technical support, always ready to guide you in developing safer, more stable, and more effective formulations.

With Macler, you have the confidence of working with a chemical partner committed to innovation, transparency, and efficiency in the supply of raw materials.