DETERGENT & PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS

Sodium laureth sulfate, an accepted contraction of sodium lauryl ether sulfate, is an anionic detergent and surfactant found in many personal care products. SLES is an inexpensive and very effective foaming agent.
It is widely used in many personal care and home care products like Shampoo, Bubble Bath, Shower Gel, Face Wash, Dish Wash, Liquid Detergent and Hand Wash. It is also used in the printing and dyeing industry, petroleum and leather industry as lubricant, dyeing agent, cleanser, foaming agent and degreasing agent.

lpha olefin sulphonate (AOS) is the best foaming agent. AOS  has a wide range of uses has primerly used in Cleaning and detergent industry as foam booster and for some extent it has capacity to soften the water for energetic cleaning action. One of the Traditional products in detergent industry and comes in different forms.
AOS stands for Alpha Olefin Sulfonates which are excellent surfactants which give the detergent good cleaning qualities in hard water conditions. 

Applications:
It is used as high foaming surfactant in following applications:

• Cosmetic & Personal Care products.
• Soaps (Toilet & Laundry)
• Synthetic Detergent (Power, Bars/Cakes & Liquid)
• Emulsion polymerization(PVC/PVA/Polyacrylates/Styrene)
• Dyes and pigment
• Paints
• Rubber & tyre
• Leather.
• Institutional cleaners
• Textile chemicals
• As an additive to cement concrete formulations (EC & WDP).

AOS Liquid form - 38% (+/-) 1%
AOS Powder form - 92% (+/-) 1%
AOS Paste form - 70% (+/-) 1%

Glycerin is a simple polyol compound. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid that is sweet-tasting and non-toxic. The glycerol backbone is found in those lipids known as glycerides. Due to having antimicrobial and antiviral properties it is widely used in FDA approved wound and burn treatments. It can also be used as an effective marker to measure liver disease. It is also widely used as a sweetener in the food industry and as a humectant in pharmaceutical formulations. Owing to the presence of three hydroxyl groups, glycerol is miscible with water and is hygroscopic in nature.

SODA ASH: GRADES AND USES
Soda ash is an odorless, white powder. It is stable, not toxic or explosive or flammable. There are basically three grades of soda ash that are produced, namely:

Dense soda ash, which is an anhydrous substance. It forms an important industrial chemical, and is widely used in the manufacture of different products.

Light soda ash, which is widely used as a pH regulator/ buffering agent in multiple industrial processes.

Washing soda, which is also an anhydrous substance that’s produced by combining light soda ash along with additional molecules of water. It’s mostly used in soaps and washing detergents to improve their cleaning properties.

Applications of Soda Ash
Soda ash, also known as sodium carbonate, has the following uses:

Industrial applications – Being a highly soluble substance, soda ash is used for numerous chemical reactions. It’s mostly used as an ingredient in the manufacture of dyes and coloring agents, synthetic detergents and fertilizers. It’s also an important chemical agent used in enameling and petroleum industries.

Detergent manufacture – Soda ash is replacing phosphates that were earlier being used in a number of household detergents. Many other cleaning products such as dishwashing soaps also contain varying amounts of soda ash in their formulations.

Metallurgy – Sodium carbonate is used to remove or de-clarify phosphates and sulfurs from a number of non-ferrous and ferrous ores. It’s also used in recycling of aluminum and zinc.

Glass manufacture – Soda ash is an important ingredient in the manufacture of glass, since it helps reduce silica’s melting point.

Other applications – Soda ash is also a common addition to spa and pool treatment chemicals helping in reducing the acidity in water. It is also used in manufacture and sealants and glues, preparing pulp in paper manufacture, and sometimes in soil preparation as well.

EDTA is a chemical that binds and holds on to (chelates) minerals and metals such as chromium, iron, lead, mercury, copper, aluminum, nickel, zinc, calcium, cobalt, manganese, and magnesium. When they are bound, they can't have any effects on the body and they are removed from the body.

t also finds applications in the industrial cleaning of dairy and brewhouse equipment. Although it is considered less corrosive than hydrochloric acid, corrosion inhibitors are often added to the commercial cleansers of which it is a component. It can be used for descaling home coffee and espresso machines and in denture cleaners.

• Catalyst for esterification process
• Dye and pigment manufacturing
• Herbicide
• Coagulator for urea-formaldehyde resins
• Ingredient in fire extinguishing media. Sulfamic acid is the main raw material for ammonium sulfamate which is a widely used herbicide and fire retardant material for household products.
• Pulp and paper industry as a chloride stabilizer
• Synthesis of nitrous oxide by reaction with nitric acid
• The deprotonated form (sulfamate) is a common counterion for nickel(II) in electroplating.
• Used to separate nitrite ions from mixture of nitrite and nitrate ions( NO₃^-+ NO₂^-) during qualitative analysis of nitrate by Brown Ring test.

According to the label on the consumer product, the liquid silver cleaning product TarnX contains thiourea, a detergent, and sulfamic acid.

2. As cleaning & chelating agent

Citric acid is considered as an excellent chelating agent. Limescale is removed from boilers and evaporators with the help of citric acid. Citric acid is used for softening water, which makes it useful in laundry detergents and soaps. It can also be used in shampoo for washing colouring and wax from the hair.