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Surfactants - Nonionic
Laureth-4
CAS 5274-68-0
A mid-range lauryl ethoxylate balancing oil affinity and emulsifying performance. It is used as an emulsifier, emollient, and solubilizer in cleaning and personal-care formulations.
Surfactancy
Wetting
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Surfactants - Nonionic
Laureth-4
CAS 68439-50-9
Surfactancy
Wetting
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Surfactants - Nonionic
Laureth-7
CAS 9002-92-0
A 7-mole ethoxylate of lauryl alcohol used as a low-foaming emulsifier and emulsion stabilizer. It is used as an emulsifier, emulsion stabilizer and surfactant in personal-care and household formulations.
Surfactancy
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Acids & Salts
Lauric Acid (Dodecanoic Acid)
CAS 143-07-7
A coconut-derived C12 fatty acid feedstock for soaps, surfactants, and esters. It is used in the manufacture of soaps and detergents, as a feedstock for surfactants and esters, and as an emulsifier and wetting agent.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Lauryl Alcohol (1-Dodecanol, Dodecyl Alcohol)
CAS 112-53-8
A C12 fatty alcohol feedstock for the sulfation and ethoxylation chemistry behind anionic and nonionic surfactants. It serves chiefly as a chemical intermediate for sulfate and ethoxylate surfactants and as a foam stabilizer for alcohol-sulfate surfactant systems.
Emolliency
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Amines & Amides
Lauryl Methyl Gluceth-10 Hydroxypropyldimonium Chloride
CAS 132034-06-1
A quaternized glucoside surfactant supplied for substantive conditioning in personal-care formulation. It is used in personal-care formulations as a conditioning co-surfactant, where the quaternized structure imparts substantivity to hair and skin.
Conditioning
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Lecithin (Soy Lecithin)
CAS 8002-43-5
A phospholipid emulsifier that bridges oil and water phases in food, feed, and industrial systems. It functions as an emulsifier, surfactant, wetting and dispersing agent, and release agent across food, feed, and industrial formulations.
Surfactancy
Emolliency
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Natural Extracts & Oils
Lemongrass Oil (Cymbopogon Oil)
CAS 8007-02-1
A citral-rich essential oil supplied for fragrance, flavor, and downstream terpene synthesis. It is used as a fragrance and flavoring ingredient and as a feedstock for citral-derived chemistry such as ionones and vitamin A intermediates.
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Linoleamide DEA (Linoleic Diethanolamide)
CAS 68603-38-3
A linoleic-acid alkanolamide that thickens and stabilizes foam in surfactant-based cleansers. It is used as a surfactant for foam boosting and viscosity building and provides antistatic and conditioning effects in cleansing and personal-care formulations.
Surfactancy
Viscosity Modification
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Amines & Amides
Linoleamidopropyl Dimethylamine (DMA)
CAS 81613-56-1
An amidoamine conditioning agent that becomes cationic on protonation for substantive hair care. It is used as a conditioning and antistatic surfactant and emulsifier in hair- and skin-care formulations; its tertiary amine can be protonated to a cationic conditioning species.
Conditioning
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Esters
Linseed Oil (Flaxseed Oil)
CAS 8001-26-1
A high-iodine drying oil that polymerizes in air to film-form paints, finishes, and linoleum. It is used as a binder and drying oil in oil paints, varnishes, and printing inks, as a wood finish and preservative, and as a raw material for putty, glazing compounds,…
Emolliency
Film Formation
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Acids & Salts
Lithium Carbonate (Li2CO3)
CAS 554-13-2
An industrial lithium salt that lowers melt temperatures in glass and ceramics and seeds the lithium supply chain. Technical grades are used as a flux in glass, ceramics, and porcelain glazes, as an additive in cement and refractories, as a constituent of arc-welding electrode coatings,…
pH Adjustment
Synthesis Intermediate
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Acids & Salts
Lithium Hydroxide (LiOH)
CAS 1310-65-2
A strong lithium base that anchors high-performance greases, scrubs CO2, and feeds battery cathodes. It is the precursor for lithium-soap lubricating greases, a carbon-dioxide absorbent in confined-atmosphere air purification, a cathode-material precursor for lithium-ion batteries, and an additive in alkaline storage batteries; it is also…
pH Adjustment
Synthesis Intermediate
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Lithium Stearate (Lithium Octadecanoate)
CAS 4485-12-5
The lithium soap that gels base oils into water-resistant, wide-temperature lubricating greases. It is used primarily as a thickener and gelling agent that converts oils into lithium-soap lubricating greases, and as a lubricant, mold-release, and stabilizing additive in plastics and coatings.
Film Formation
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Natural Extracts & Oils
Luffa Cylindrica (Loofah)
CAS 90131-71-8
A renewable cellulosic plant fiber valued as a natural exfoliant and scrubbing matrix. Its fibrous vascular network is used as a natural exfoliant and scrubbing medium in personal-care and cleaning products and as a renewable cellulosic fiber.
Thickening / Rheology
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Specialty Additives
Lupeol
CAS 545-47-1
A potent antioxidant derived from plants that protects skin from environmental damage, reduces inflammation, and promotes a youthful complexion. Commonly used
Conditioning
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Natural Extracts & Oils
Lutein (Marigold Extract, Tagetes Erecta)
CAS 84776-23-8
A marigold-derived xanthophyll concentrate that deposits natural yellow color in feed, food, and formulations. It is used as a natural yellow-orange colorant, as a xanthophyll pigmenting additive in poultry and egg-yolk feed, and as a nutrient/supplement ingredient.
Conditioning
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Natural Extracts & Oils
Lutein (Xanthophyll)
CAS 127-40-2
A carotenoid colorant and nutrient supplied at a standardized 5% lutein assay. It serves as a natural yellow colorant and food additive and as a xanthophyll pigmenting and nutrient ingredient for feed, food, and supplement formulations.
Conditioning
Color / Pigmentation
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Lycopene (Tomato Extract)
CAS 502-65-8
A carotenoid red colorant concentrated from tomato and supplied at a standardized lycopene assay. It is used as a natural red colorant in food and as a cosmetic colorant and antioxidant ingredient.
Preservation
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Surfactants - Anionic
Magnesium Alkyl Ether Sulfate (Magnesium Laureth Sulfate)
CAS 111937-03-2
A magnesium-counterion ether-sulfate surfactant supplied as a concentrated paste for foaming cleansers. It is used as a foaming and cleansing agent in shampoos, body washes, and liquid household and industrial cleaners.
Surfactancy
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Magnesium Aluminum Silicate (Aluminum Magnesium Silicate)
CAS 1327-43-1
A swelling clay that builds yield value and holds particles in suspension across waterborne systems. It is used as a rheology modifier, suspending agent, and thickener in coatings, personal care, and household products, and as an anticaking agent, opacifier, and absorbent.
Color / Pigmentation
Viscosity Modification
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Acids & Salts
Magnesium Ascorbate (Magnesium L-Ascorbate)
CAS 15431-40-0
A pH-buffered, non-acidic vitamin C salt for supplement, food, and skin-care formulations. It is used as a non-acidic vitamin C source and antioxidant ingredient in dietary-supplement, food, and cosmetic formulations.
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Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate (MAP)
CAS 113170-55-1
A hydrolysis-stable vitamin C phosphate ester formulated for water-based skin care. It is used as an antioxidant active and stable vitamin C source in cosmetic and personal-care formulations.
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Acids & Salts
Magnesium Chloride
CAS 7786-30-3
A versatile magnesium salt spanning de-icing brines, oxychloride cements, and nutrient supply. It is used for road de-icing and dust control, as the reactive component in magnesium oxychloride (Sorel) cement and wallboard, and as a magnesium source in fertilizers and animal feed.
Viscosity Modification
Moisture Control
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Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Magnesium Hydroxide (MDH)
CAS 1309-42-8
A high-temperature, halogen-free mineral flame retardant that also neutralizes process acids and treats effluent. In polymers it serves as a halogen-free flame retardant and smoke suppressant with higher thermal stability than aluminum hydroxide.
pH Adjustment
Flame Retardancy
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Surfactants - Anionic
Magnesium Lauryl Sulfate (Magnesium Dodecyl Sulfate)
CAS 3097-08-3
A magnesium-counterion lauryl sulfate surfactant for foaming and cleansing systems. It is used as a cleansing and foaming surfactant in personal-care and household cleaning formulations.
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Magnesium Oxide (Light)
CAS 1309-48-4
High-surface-area light magnesia for refractories, feed and fertilizer additives, and acid-acceptor duty in rubber and process chemistry. Documented uses span refractory and insulation products, animal feed and fertilizer additives, rubber compounding, and food-grade applications such as anticaking and pH adjustment; it also acts as an…
Color / Pigmentation
pH Adjustment
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Magnesium Stearate
CAS 557-04-0
A workhorse metallic-soap lubricant and flow aid for tablet, powder, plastic, and cosmetic formulations. It is widely used as a lubricant, anticaking, and release agent in tableting and powder processing, as a lubricant and stabilizer in plastics, and as an emulsifying and refatting agent in…
Thickening / Rheology
Moisture Control
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Acids & Salts
Magnesium Sulfate (Anhydrous)
CAS 7487-88-9
A dependable anhydrous desiccant and magnesium feedstock for fertilizer, textile, leather, and nutritional uses. It serves as a drying and dehydrating agent and is used across fertilizer manufacture, textile weighting and dyeing, leather tanning, and as a magnesium nutrient source in feed and food.
Thickening / Rheology
Viscosity Modification
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Acids & Salts
Mandelic Acid
CAS 90-64-2
Synthesis Intermediate
Conditioning
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Acids & Salts
Manganese Chloride (Manganese(II) Chloride)
CAS 7773-01-5
A soluble divalent manganese salt feeding dyeing, drier, battery, and trace-nutrient chemistries. Documented uses include textile dyeing, disinfecting and purifying natural gas, manufacture of linseed-oil driers and dry-cell batteries, and use as a manganese nutrient supplement.
Synthesis Intermediate
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Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Manganese Dioxide
CAS 1313-13-9
Technical-grade manganese dioxide for battery cathodes, synthetic oxidation, and glass and ceramic coloring. It is used primarily in dry-cell and alkaline batteries and as an oxidant in organic synthesis, and also serves as a glass decolorizer and colorant, a ceramic and brick pigment, and a…
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Acids & Salts
Manganese Sulfate
CAS 7785-87-7
The principal water-soluble manganese feedstock, supplying the metal for electrolytic processing while also serving agriculture and ceramics. It is used as a manganese micronutrient in fertilizers and animal feeds, as the precursor for electrolytic manganese metal and manganese dioxide, as a catalyst and paint drier,…
Synthesis Intermediate
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Mango Butter
CAS 90063-86-8
A solid botanical kernel fat that brings a firm, emollient base to balms, sticks, and confectionery blends. It is used as an emollient and skin- and hair-conditioning fat in personal-care formulations and as a hard fat (cocoa-butter-equivalent) base in confectionery and cosmetic sticks.
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Mineral Fillers & Pigments
Menthol (Menthol Crystals)
CAS 89-78-1
Crystalline mint terpene supplied to flavor, fragrance, and oral-care formulators. Established non-medicinal uses include service as a flavor and fragrance ingredient in confectionery, chewing gum, oral-care products, and perfumery, and as a precursor for menthyl esters in flavor compounding.
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Solvents - Oxygenated
Mesityl Oxide
CAS 141-79-7
A strong-solvency unsaturated ketone for coatings, polymer solutions, and MIBK synthesis. It dissolves resins, gums, vinyl and cellulose polymers, lacquers, enamels, inks, and oils, is a component of paint and varnish removers, and is an intermediate in the manufacture of methyl isobutyl ketone.
Solvency
Synthesis Intermediate
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Acids & Salts
Methacrylic Acid (MAA)
CAS 79-41-4
A carboxyl-functional monomer for acrylic resins and methacrylate synthesis. It is used as a monomer and comonomer for acrylic resins and polymers and as an intermediate for methacrylate esters.
Film Formation
Synthesis Intermediate
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Surfactants - Cationic
Methyl Bis(hydrogenated Tallow Amidoethyl)-2-hydroxyethyl Ammonium Methyl Sulfate
CAS 81646-13-1
A hydrogenated-tallow diamidoamine quat built for rich softening and antistatic conditioning. Quaternaries of this type serve as fabric-softening actives and as antistatic and fiber-conditioning agents.
Conditioning
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Solvents - Oxygenated
Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK)
CAS 78-93-3
A high-solvency, fast-flash ketone for coatings, inks, adhesives, and resin processing. It is used primarily as a solvent for surface coatings, gums, resins, cellulose acetate and nitrate, inks, adhesives, and synthetic leather, and as a process solvent in resin and coating manufacture.
Solvency
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Surfactants - Nonionic
Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate
CAS 68936-95-8
A sugar-derived nonionic emulsifier that stabilizes oil-in-water creams and lotions. It is used as a nonionic emulsifier and emulsion stabilizer in personal-care and cosmetic oil-in-water formulations.
Surfactancy
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Solvents - Oxygenated
Methyl Isobutyl Carbinol (MIBC, 4-Methyl-2-Pentanol)
CAS 108-11-2
The workhorse frother of sulfide and coal flotation circuits. It is used as a frother in the froth flotation of copper ores, coal, and tar sands, and as a solvent for dyes, oils, gums, resins, waxes, and cellulose esters.
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Solvents - Oxygenated
Methyl Isobutyl Ketone (MIBK)
CAS 108-10-1
A medium-boiling ketone solvent valued for strong solvency in coatings, adhesives, and metal-extraction processes. It dissolves gums, natural and synthetic resins, nitrocellulose, paints, varnishes, and lacquers, and is used as an extraction solvent for metals and in adhesive and coating manufacture.
Solvency
Cleaning / Degreasing
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Methyl Laurate (Methyl Dodecanoate)
CAS 111-82-0
A coconut-derived fatty-acid methyl ester serving as an oleochemical intermediate and mild solvent/emollient. It is used as a chemical intermediate — for alkanolamides, fatty alcohols, and fatty acids — and as a solvent, emollient, and flavoring agent.
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Silicone Fluids & Oils
Methyl Trimethicone
CAS 63148-57-2
A volatile branched silicone that delivers a dry, fast-spreading slip to skin and hair care. It is used in personal-care formulations as a light, non-greasy emollient, spreading agent, and skin- and hair-conditioning carrier.
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Methyl-1-tallow Amidoethyl-2-tallow Imidazolinium Methyl Sulfate
CAS 68424-85-1
A tallow-based imidazolinium quat that deposits softening, antistatic feel onto fibers and surfaces. Quaternaries of this class are used as fabric- and textile-softening actives and as antistatic, substantive conditioning agents.
Biocidal Action
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Methyl-1-tallow Amidoethyl-2-tallow Imidazolinium Methyl Sulfate
CAS 68122-86-1
An imidazolinium quaternary engineered to bind to fibers and leave a soft, antistatic finish. Quaternaries of this class function as fabric-softening actives and as antistatic, substantive conditioning agents for fibers and surfaces.
Conditioning
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Methylchloroisothiazolinone (CMIT)
CAS 26172-55-4
A broad-spectrum isothiazolinone microbiostat supplied as an in-can preservative for industrial and water-based systems. It is used as a preservative and biocide in cosmetics and across industrial systems including metalworking fluids, latex paints, adhesives, and process waters.
Preservation
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Methylchloroisothiazolinone/Methylisothiazolinone (CMIT/MIT)
CAS 55965-84-9
A water-based 3:1 isothiazolinone preservative blend supplied for broad-spectrum protection of formulated products. It is used as a broad-spectrum preservative and biocide in cosmetics, personal-care products, and industrial water-based systems.
Biocidal Action
Preservation
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