Acids & Salts
Sodium Formaldehyde Bisulfite (Sodium Hydroxymethanesulfonate)
CAS 870-72-4
A formaldehyde-bisulfite adduct delivering controlled reducing power for textile and mineral-processing operations. Used as a reducing and stripping agent in textile dyeing, as a developer component in photography, and as a reagent in lead-zinc ore flotation.
Preservation
Biocidal Action
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Esters
Sodium Gluconate
CAS 527-07-1
A biodegradable chelant prized for sequestering metal ions across cleaning, concrete, and water-treatment systems. Used as a chelating and sequestering agent in industrial and institutional cleaning and metal surface treatment, as a set retarder and water reducer in concrete and mortar, and as a sequestrant…
Chelation / Sequestration
Scale Inhibition
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Hexametaphosphate (SHMP)
CAS 10124-56-8
A polyphosphate sequestrant that softens water and disperses minerals without precipitate formation. Used in water treatment as a sequestrant and scale/corrosion inhibitor, in detergents, as a dispersant for clays and pigments, as a food additive (sequestrant and emulsifying salt), and as a thinner for drilling…
Chelation / Sequestration
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Specialty Additives
Sodium Hyaluronate (Hyaluronic Acid Sodium Salt)
CAS 9067-32-7
A water-binding polysaccharide supplied for humectant and skin-conditioning roles in cosmetic formulations. Used in cosmetic and personal-care formulations as a humectant and skin-conditioning ingredient.
Moisture Control
Thickening / Rheology
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Amines & Amides
Sodium Hydroxymethylglycinate
CAS 70161-44-3
A glycine-derived, water-soluble preservative for aqueous personal-care and industrial systems. Used as a preservative in water-based personal-care and industrial formulations.
Preservation
Biocidal Action
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCl, Bleach)
CAS 7681-52-9
Aqueous chlorine bleach delivering oxidative bleaching and disinfection across water, textile, and industrial uses. Used as a bleaching agent in textile, pulp, and paper processing and laundry, as a disinfectant in water treatment, swimming pools, and cooling towers, and to detoxify cyanide in metal-finishing baths.
pH Adjustment
Biocidal Action
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Isostearoyl Lactylate
CAS 66988-04-3
A lactylate emulsifier that stabilizes oil-in-water systems in personal-care formulations. Used as an anionic emulsifier and conditioning agent in cosmetic and personal-care formulations.
Surfactancy
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Amines & Amides
Sodium Lauraminopropionate
CAS 14960-06-6
An amino-acid-based amphoteric surfactant for personal-care cleansing systems. Used as a surfactant, cleansing, and conditioning agent in personal-care formulations.
Surfactancy
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES, Sodium Lauryl Ether Sulfate)
CAS 68891-38-3
The high-volume ethoxylated sulfate surfactant at the core of foaming cleansers and detergents. Used as a primary foaming and cleansing surfactant in shampoos, bubble baths, and household and industrial detergents.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)
CAS 3088-31-1
A high-foaming ethoxylated sulfate surfactant that anchors cleansing and detergent systems. Used as a primary foaming and cleansing surfactant in shampoos, bubble baths, and household and industrial detergents.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)
CAS 9004-82-4
High-foam anionic ether sulfate supplied for personal-care and household cleaning concentrates. PubChem and HSDB classify it as a surfactant used in household detergents, shampoos, and bubble baths.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Nonionic
Sodium Laureth-12 Sulfate
CAS 68585-34-2
A higher-ethoxylate laureth sulfate offering surfactancy in cleansing and detergent systems. Used as a foaming and cleansing surfactant in personal-care and detergent formulations.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Amphoteric
Sodium Lauroamphoacetate
CAS 156028-14-7
A lauric-derived amphoteric surfactant used as a secondary surfactant in cleansing systems. Used as a secondary surfactant and co-surfactant in personal-care cleansers, including shampoos and baby washes.
Surfactancy
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Lauroamphodiacetate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Hexylene Glycol Blend
A pre-formulated amphoteric/anionic surfactant base for ready-to-build cleansers. Used as a cleansing surfactant base for personal-care formulations such as shampoos and body washes.
Cleaning / Degreasing
Wetting
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Esters
Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate
CAS 13557-75-0
A lactic-acid-derived emulsifier bridging oil and water phases in personal-care and food systems. Used as an anionic emulsifier and conditioning surfactant in personal-care and food formulations.
Surfactancy
Conditioning
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Amines & Amides
Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate
CAS 137-16-6
An N-acyl sarcosinate surfactant delivering foam and cleansing in personal care and corrosion control in metalworking. Used as a foaming and cleansing surfactant in toothpastes, shampoos, and other personal-care products, and as an anti-corrosion additive in metal finishing.
Surfactancy
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)
CAS 151-21-3
A high-foaming anionic surfactant — SLS cleanses, emulsifies and wets across personal-care, household and industrial formulations, and denatures proteins for SDS-PAGE in the lab.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate (SLSA)
CAS 1847-58-1
Sulfoacetate foaming surfactant for bath, dentifrice, and personal-cleansing formulations. PubChem and HSDB record its use as a foaming or dispersing agent in dentifrices, bubble baths, and other bath preparations, and as a wetting agent in surfactant systems.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Lignosulfonate (Sodium Ligninsulfonate)
CAS 8061-51-6
Lignin-derived anionic dispersant and binder for concrete, drilling, agriculture, and mineral processing. HSDB documents its use as a dispersant, emulsion stabilizer, chelating agent, and ore-flotation agent, and in concrete admixtures, oil-well drilling muds, and as a soil stabilizer and road binder.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate (LAS, SDBS)
CAS 68411-30-3
The backbone anionic surfactant of modern detergents, delivering cleaning power across consumer and industrial formulations. It is used as the primary detergent active in household and industrial laundry, dishwashing, and cleaning products.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Metasilicate, Anhydrous
CAS 6834-92-0
Anhydrous alkaline silicate builder for heavy-duty detergents, metal cleaning, and foundry binders. PubChem and Hawley list its use in detergents and cleaners, metal cleaning, foundry molds, paper and textile bleaching, ore treatment, and drilling fluids, and as a starting material for silica gels and zeolites.
Chelation / Sequestration
pH Adjustment
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate (SMCT)
CAS 12765-39-8
Coconut-derived taurate surfactant for high-foam, sulfate-free personal-cleansing systems. PubChem classifies the N-acyl methyl taurate family as cleansing, foaming surfactants for cosmetic formulations.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Methyl Oleoyl Taurate
CAS 4337-75-1
Oleoyl taurate anionic surfactant for foaming and wetting in cleansing formulations. PubChem classifies it as a cleansing, foaming surfactant for cosmetic formulations. It also acts as a wetting agent in aqueous surfactant systems.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Molybdate
CAS 7631-95-0
A soluble molybdate that inhibits corrosion and supplies molybdenum across treatment and finishing systems. It is used as a corrosion inhibitor in cooling-water and metalworking systems, in pigment manufacture, as a metal-finishing bath additive, and as a molybdenum micronutrient in fertilizers.
Corrosion Inhibition
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Myreth Sulfate
CAS 25446-80-4
Myristyl ether-sulfate surfactant for foam and detergency in cleansing concentrates. Industry references record it as a CIR-reviewed ingredient present in personal-care and pet-care products.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Nitrate (Chile Saltpeter)
CAS 7631-99-4
Inorganic nitrate oxidizer for glass, explosives, nitric-acid synthesis, and heat-transfer salts. HSDB documents its use in fertilizers, as the oxidizing component of explosives and blasting agents, as an oxidizer and fluxing agent in glass and enamel manufacture, and in the production of nitric acid and…
Preservation
Synthesis Intermediate
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Nitrite
CAS 7632-00-0
Inorganic nitrite for meat curing, corrosion inhibition, and diazotization chemistry. HSDB documents its use as a color fixative and preservative in cured meats and fish, as a corrosion inhibitor in multipurpose greases and heat-transfer salts, in textile dyeing and printing, and in metal treatment and…
Preservation
Corrosion Inhibition
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Esters
Sodium Oleate
CAS 143-19-1
Fatty-acid soap and emulsifier for flotation, emulsion polymerization, and oil/water systems. HSDB documents its use in ore flotation, textile waterproofing, metal polishes, and polymer curing, and as an emulsifier for oil/water systems and in the emulsion polymerization of butadiene.
Cleaning / Degreasing
Surfactancy
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Acids & Salts
Sodium PCA
CAS 28874-51-3
Moisture Control
Conditioning
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Persulfate (Sodium Persulphate)
CAS 7775-27-1
A stable, water-soluble persulfate oxidant for radical initiation and oxidation duties. It functions as a bleaching and oxidizing agent and as an initiator for emulsion and solution polymerization.
Crosslinking / Curing
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Phosphate Esters & Derivatives
Sodium Phytate (Sodium Inositol Hexaphosphate)
CAS 14306-25-3
A plant-derived chelant that sequesters metal ions where a phosphate-based alternative is preferred. It is used as a chelating agent that binds metal ions in formulations.
Chelation / Sequestration
Preservation
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Polymers & Resins
Sodium Polyacrylate
CAS 9003-04-7
The sodium salt of polyacrylic acid that absorbs many times its weight in water and disperses scale-forming minerals. Depending on grade it is used as a superabsorbent polymer, as a thickener and film former in personal-care and household products, and as a dispersant, antiscalant and…
Thickening / Rheology
Scale Inhibition
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Polyaspartate (PASP)
CAS 94525-01-6
Polyamino-acid polyelectrolyte for scale inhibition and dispersancy in water-treatment programs. As an anionic polycarboxylate it acts as a threshold scale inhibitor, dispersant, and sequestering (chelating) agent in water-treatment and cleaning systems.
pH Adjustment
Scale Inhibition
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Amines & Amides
Sodium Polyglutamate (Sodium PGA)
CAS 25513-46-6
Water-soluble polyamino-acid biopolymer for humectancy and film formation in cosmetic systems. It is used as a humectant and film-forming agent in cosmetic formulations and as a chelating agent.
Moisture Control
Film Formation
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium PPG-16/PEG-2 Lauryl Ether Sulfate
CAS 68891-38-3
Polymeric ether-sulfate surfactant for foam and detergency in aqueous cleansing systems. As an alkyl ether sulfate it provides foam, detergency, and wetting in personal-care and household cleansing formulations.
Surfactancy
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Sesquicarbonate (Trona)
CAS 533-96-0
Carbonate-bicarbonate double salt for moderate-alkalinity cleaning, water softening, and bath products. HSDB documents its use as a detergent and soap builder, a mild alkaline agent for general cleaning and water softening, in bath salts, and in leather tanning.
Cleaning / Degreasing
Thickening / Rheology
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Silicate Solution (Water Glass)
CAS 1344-09-8
Aqueous soluble-silicate binder and adhesive for foundry, paper, and construction use. PubChem and Hawley document its use in adhesives and binders, foundry molds, detergents, paper bleaching, ore treatment, and drilling fluids, and as a starting material for silica gels and zeolites.
pH Adjustment
Corrosion Inhibition
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
CAS 38517-37-2
A glutamic-acid-derived anionic surfactant that emulsifies oil-in-water systems and forms liquid-crystal structures. It is used as an emulsifier and cleansing surfactant and as a hair- and skin-conditioning agent in personal-care formulations.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate (SSL)
CAS 25383-99-7
Lactylate anionic emulsifier for baked-goods and personal-care formulations. PubChem and JECFA classify it as a food emulsifier, and CIR lists it as a cosmetic emulsifying agent.
Surfactancy
Conditioning
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Sulfate (Salt Cake)
CAS 7757-82-6
Commodity inorganic sulfate for kraft pulping, glassmaking, and detergent filling. HSDB documents its use in the manufacture of kraft paper, paperboard, and glass, as a filler in synthetic detergents, in textile dyeing and printing, and as a drying agent for organic liquids.
Thickening / Rheology
Viscosity Modification
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Sulfite
CAS 7757-83-7
Inorganic sulfite reducing agent and oxygen scavenger for water treatment and bleaching. HSDB documents its use in photographic developers, textile and paper bleaching as an antichlor, in dye manufacture, and as an oxygen scavenger in boiler-water and oilfield treatment.
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Tetraborate Decahydrate (Borax)
CAS 1303-96-4
A hydrated borate that moves between glass-and-ceramic fluxing, cleaning chemistry, and pH buffering. It is used as a buffering and chelating agent, a flux and raw material in glass and ceramics, a detergent builder, and a flame retardant; it also carries registered insecticidal and herbicidal…
pH Adjustment
Crosslinking / Curing
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Thiosulfate
CAS 7772-98-7
Inorganic thiosulfate for photographic fixing, dechlorination, and chrome reduction. HSDB documents its use as a photographic fixer that dissolves silver halides, as an antichlor for dechlorinating bleached paper and textiles, in wastewater treatment to reduce chlorine and chromium, in chrome leather tanning, and as a…
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Toluenesulfonate
CAS 657-84-1
Surfactancy
Solvency
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Trideceth Sulfate
CAS 25446-78-0
Tridecyl ether-sulfate surfactant for foam and detergency in liquid cleansing formulations. PubChem classifies it as a surfactant within the EPA Safer Chemical surfactant class.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Polymers & Resins
Sodium Tridecyl Ether Sulfate (Sodium C13 Alkyl Ether Sulfate)
CAS 54116-08-4
A C13 ether-sulfate surfactant supplied as a high-active anionic cleaning base. It functions as a foaming, wetting, and detergency agent in aqueous cleaning formulations.
Thickening / Rheology
Surfactancy
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Tripolyphosphate (STPP)
CAS 7758-29-4
A high-sequestering inorganic polyphosphate builder that softens water and disperses solids across detergent, ceramic, and water-treatment systems. Industry references record its use in water softening, heavy-duty fabric and automatic-dishwashing detergents, drilling-fluid treatment, and as a sequestering, dispersing, and anti-caking agent; it is also recognized as…
Chelation / Sequestration
pH Adjustment
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Xylene Sulfonate (SXS)
CAS 1300-72-7
A short-chain aromatic sulfonate hydrotrope that keeps high-active liquid cleaners clear and pourable. It is used as a hydrotropic solvent and solubilizer in liquid household detergents, shampoos, degreasing compounds, leather glues, and textile printing pastes.
Cleaning / Degreasing
Wetting
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