Functional Role

Thickeners & Rheology Modifiers

117 products serving this function

Thickeners and rheology modifiers build viscosity, yield, and flow control in liquids and gels. RawSource supplies cellulosics, gums, carbomers, and clays in bulk.

Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Silica Dimethyl Silylate (Hydrophobic Fumed Silica)
CAS 68611-44-9
Fumed silica capped with dimethylsilyl groups so it thickens oils and stays free-flowing in moisture. It is used as a rheology modifier and anti-settling thickener for non-aqueous and oil-rich systems, as an anti-caking and flow aid, and as an absorbent and bulking agent.
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Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Silica Dimethyl Silylate [Nano]
CAS 68611-44-9
A hydrophobic silica used as a thickening agent in cosmetics.
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Specialty Additives
Sodium Alginate (Algin)
CAS 9005-38-3
A seaweed-derived hydrocolloid that builds viscosity and forms gels in water-based systems. It functions as a thickening, gelling, and film-forming agent, and is widely used as a print-paste thickener in textile reactive dyeing and as a stabilizer in food systems.
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
CAS 144-55-8
A single low-cost alkali that leavens, buffers, scrubs, and neutralizes across food, cleaning, and process chemistry. It is used across food, cleaning, and personal-care applications as a leavening agent, buffering and neutralizing agent, mild abrasive, and deodorizer, and industrially in uses ranging from flue-gas treatment…
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash)
CAS 497-19-8
Soda ash is the high-volume alkali behind glassmaking, detergents and water treatment, supplied in light and dense grades.
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Specialty Additives
Sodium Caseinate
CAS 9005-46-3
A milk-protein salt that emulsifies, binds, and fortifies across food and technical formulations. It is used as an emulsifier, thickener, whitener, and protein source in food processing, and as a binder and film-former in industrial and adhesive applications.
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Acids & Salts
Sodium Chloride (Industrial Salt)
CAS 7647-14-5
Bulk industrial salt for brine systems, leather processing, and chlor-alkali feedstock supply. It is used in hide preservation and the pickling stage of leather production, as brine for ion-exchange regeneration, and as a feedstock for chlor-alkali production.
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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.
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Surfactants - Anionic
Sodium Naphthalenesulfonate Formaldehyde Condensate
CAS 9084-06-4
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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…
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Polymers & Resins
Sodium Polymethacrylate (Na-PMA)
CAS 54193-36-1
Anionic polycarboxylate dispersant and antiscalant supplied as a ready-to-dose aqueous solution. As a polycarboxylate it functions as a dispersant, scale or threshold inhibitor, and rheology modifier for mineral and pigment slurries and water-treatment systems.
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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.
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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.
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Amines & Amides
Soyamide DEA
CAS 68155-07-7
A soy fatty-acid diethanolamide used to build foam and viscosity in surfactant-based cleansing systems. Materials of this class are used as foam boosters/stabilizers and viscosity builders in cleansing and personal-care formulations.
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Specialty Additives
Starch
CAS 9005-25-8
A versatile plant polysaccharide used as a thickener, binder, and sizing agent across food and industry. It is an established thickener, binder, and stabilizer in food and a sizing and adhesive base in paper and textile processing.
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Amines & Amides
Stearamide MEA
CAS 111-57-9
A stearic monoethanolamide used to boost foam and control viscosity in cleansing systems. It is used as an antistatic, viscosity-controlling, and foam-boosting agent in cosmetics, and as a stabilizer and emulsifier in industrial systems.
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Surfactants - Amphoteric
Stearamine Oxide (Stearyl Dimethylamine Oxide)
CAS 2571-88-2
A long-chain amine-oxide surfactant for foam boosting, conditioning, and mild cleansing. It is used as a foam-boosting, cleansing, hydrotrope, hair-conditioning, and antistatic surfactant in personal-care formulations.
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Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Talc (Talcum)
CAS 14807-96-6
A soft magnesium-silicate mineral milled to fine powder for filler, anti-caking, and lubricating duty across industries. it is used as a filler and pigment extender in paints, rubber, and plastics, an additive in ceramics and paper coatings, a carrier and diluent for insecticides, and a…
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Acids & Salts
Tricalcium Phosphate (Calcium Phosphate Tribasic)
CAS 7758-87-4
A multipurpose calcium phosphate for feed, anticaking, and ceramic/glass applications. It is used in fertilizers and animal feed, as an anticaking and free-flow agent, and in glass, ceramics, polishing and dental powders, as well as a stabilizer in plastics.
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Polymers & Resins
Vinyl Acetate-Ethylene (VAE) Copolymer
CAS 24937-78-8
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Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Zinc Oxide (Zinc White)
CAS 1314-13-2
The workhorse zinc compound behind rubber vulcanization, coatings, and ceramics. Roughly half to sixty percent of consumption goes to the rubber industry as a vulcanization activator.
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