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    There are various Nonionic Surfactants like Castor Oil, Alkylphenol, Fatty Amines Ethoxylates, Fatty Alcohol Ethoxylates, Fatty Acid Ethoxylates etc. The surface active agents which do not disassociate into ions in aqueous solutions are referred as nonionic surfactants. Nonionic surfactants have best applications in industries in form of cleaning agents or detergents. These are preferred over the ionic surfactants which are usually insoluble in hard water and considered to be poor cleaners. The best thing about non ionic surfactant products is that they are excellent solvents and have high chemical stability. Because of these properties these are widely used as surface active gents in various industries. They are used as wetting agents, detergents, emulsifiers and solubilizers in textile, agriculture, cosmetics and health care industrial sectors. The majority of the nonionic surfactants used in industries are processed from the ethoxylation process. In an ethoxylation process ethylene oxide is made to react with alcohols, fatty acids, phenol, amines etc to form different types of surface active agents. Some of the popular variants of nonionic surface active agents widely employed in industries include fatty alcohol ethoxylate, alkylphenol ethoxylate, glycerine ethoxylates, fatty amines ethoxylate, castor oil ethoxylate and fatty acid ethoxylates.

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    There are various Nonionic Surfactants like Castor Oil, Alkylphenol, Fatty Amines Ethoxylates, Fatty Alcohol Ethoxylates, Fatty Acid Ethoxylates etc. The surface active agents which do not disassociate into ions in aqueous solutions are referred as nonionic surfactants. Nonionic surfactants have best applications in industries in form of cleaning agents or detergents. These are preferred over the ionic surfactants which are usually insoluble in hard water and considered to be poor cleaners. The best thing about non ionic surfactant products is that they are excellent solvents and have high chemical stability. Because of these properties these are widely used as surface active gents in various industries. They are used as wetting agents, detergents, emulsifiers and solubilizers in textile, agriculture, cosmetics and health care industrial sectors. The majority of the nonionic surfactants used in industries are processed from the ethoxylation process. In an ethoxylation process ethylene oxide is made to react with alcohols, fatty acids, phenol, amines etc to form different types of surface active agents. Some of the popular variants of nonionic surface active agents widely employed in industries include fatty alcohol ethoxylate, alkylphenol ethoxylate, glycerine ethoxylates, fatty amines ethoxylate, castor oil ethoxylate and fatty acid ethoxylates.

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    Nonionic Surfactants & Their Industrial Applications

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    There are various Nonionic Surfactants like Castor Oil, Alkylphenol, Fatty Amines Ethoxylates, Fatty Alcohol Ethoxylates, Fatty Acid Ethoxylates etc. The surface active agents which do not disassociate into ions in aqueous solutions are referred as nonionic surfactants. Nonionic surfactants have best applications in industries in form of cleaning agents or detergents. These are preferred over the ionic surfactants which are usually insoluble in hard water and considered to be poor cleaners. The best thing about non ionic surfactant products is that they are excellent solvents and have high chemical stability. Because of these properties these are widely used as surface active gents in various industries. They are used as wetting agents, detergents, emulsifiers and solubilizers in textile, agriculture, cosmetics and health care industrial sectors. The majority of the nonionic surfactants used in industries are processed from the ethoxylation process. In an ethoxylation process ethylene oxide is made to react with alcohols, fatty acids, phenol, amines etc to form different types of surface active agents. Some of the popular variants of nonionic surface active agents widely employed in industries include fatty alcohol ethoxylate, alkylphenol ethoxylate, glycerine ethoxylates, fatty amines ethoxylate, castor oil ethoxylate and fatty acid ethoxylates.

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    Castor Oil Ethoxylates
    Polyethoxylated castor oil or castor oil
    ethoxylates are derivatives of ethoxylation of
    castor oil and ethylene oxide. These are
    nonionic surfactants which are widely used
    in oral, topical and pharmaceutical
    formulations. They can be used as
    emulsifying or solubilizing agents as well,
    and are therefore suitable for the production
    of aqueous liquid preparations in industries.
    In cosmetics, these are widely used as
    solubilizing agents for perfume bases and
    are often used as replacements to castor oil
    in production of hand lotions.
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    Alkylphenol Ethoxylate
    Alkylphenol ethoxylates are produced
    by ethoxylation of alkylphenols like
    octylphenol, nonylphenol, propylphenol,
    dodecylphenol etc. The basic application
    of these ethoxylate products is in form of
    detergents and emulsifiers in industrial
    applications. Alkylphenol ethoxylate
    derivatives are used in pesticides, lube
    oil, hair dyes, hair care products, and in
    spermicides.
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    Fatty Amines Ethoxylates
    Ethoxylation of amines with ethylene oxide
    produces a bi-product called fatty amines
    ethoxylate. These are nonionic surfactants
    which can be used in formulating emulsifier
    blends. They are mainly used as wetting
    agents, agrochemical emulsifiers, industrial
    cleaners, metal cleaners, stabilizers, sanitizers,
    dispersants and defoaming agents. They are
    also used in metal, drilling, textile, paper and
    chemical industries.
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    Fatty Alcohol Ethoxylates
    When ethylene oxide reacts with lauryl
    alcohol, stearyl alcohol, behenyl alcohol,
    oleyl cetyl alcohol and other fatty
    alcohols, the fatty alcohol ethoxylates are
    produced. These alcohol ethoxylates are
    used in cosmetics and textile industries
    as emulsifying and solubilizing agents.
    They are widely used as wetting and
    cleaning agents in cosmetics, agriculture,
    textile, paper, oil and various other
    process industries.
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    Fatty Acid Ethoxylates
    Fatty acids like lauric acid, stearic acid, oleic acid and others when react with
    ethylene oxide give rise to derivatives of these fatty acids also known as fatty acid
    ethoxylates. Some of the popular ethoxylated fatty acids used in industries are
    stearic acid ethoxylates, lauric acid ethoxylates, oleic acid ethoxylates and coconut
    fatty acid ethoxylates. Like other ethoxylate products these are also nonionic and
    are widely employed in cleaning, scouring, bleaching applications.
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