ECOSURF™ Bright 1 Surfactant
Ethoxylated mixed C16-18 alcohol, butylene oxide-capped nonionic surfactant. A noionic surfactant, specialty alkoxylated alcohol developed to address the most challenging needs of automatic dishwashing detergents. Low-cloud point waxy surfactant useful for preventing spotting in automatic dishwashing. It is a waxy substance at room temperature and delivers exceptional shine benefits due to its strong anti-spotting characteristics. Improves the shine of glasses and utensils washed with detergents lacking expensive builders.
Properties
These values are typical properties and are not intended for use in preparing specifications.
- % Actives Yes No 90-100
- Biodegradable Materials Yes No true
- Cloud Point Yes No 20-25 °C
- Flash Point, Closed Cup Yes No > 160 °C
- HLB Yes No 11.8
- Melting Point Yes No 27-30 °C
- pH Yes No 5-9
Is better performance achieveable with lower cost formulations?
ECOSURF™ Bright 1 Surfactant is a low-foaming surfactant for automatic dishwash applications that reduces streaks and spotting on dishware in phosphate-free formulations. It delivers superior shine and anti-spotting performance both on glassware and stainless-steel surfaces.
ECOSURF™ Bright 1 Surfactant helps brand owners achieve the balance of cost and performance, and and it can also help reduce formulation costs by decreasing the need of expensive builders.
Performance
In a citrate-base formulation with 5 wt% surfactant. ECOSURF™ Bright 1 outperforms on spotting and filming against the commercial positive control (Figure 1).
Figure 1
Test images demonstrating superior performance of ECOSURF™ Bright 1 Surfactant.
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