Colonial Chemical Debuts ColaTeric CAHS

Colonial Chemical has introduced ColaTeric CAHS (INCI: Sodium Cocoamphohydroxypropylsulfonate) to its growing offering of sustainable amphoteric products.
 
ColaTeric CAHS is a mild, biodegradable amphoteric surfactant suitable for all types of foaming cleansers. It lowers overall irritation when used in formulations with commonly used primary surfactants. It is an ideal replacement for amphoacetate chemistry, offering higher biorenewable content, improved compatibility with hard water, and higher purity. ColaTeric CAHS is especially well suited for gentle personal care products.
 
“Our industry still has a distance to go in terms of improving sustainability of secondary surfactants,” said Dennis Abbeduto, business manager for Personal Care Products, Colonial Chemical. “A lot of the new product development in the surfactant arena has been geared towards primary surfactants. Secondary surfactants, while generally naturally derived, still contain significant portions of petrochemical feedstocks – up to 40% of secondary surfactants can be petrochemical in origin.”
 
“By utilizing the same intermediates as sultaines, we can produce amphoacetate analogs with higher biobased proportions along with improvements in other properties such as higher solids, lower irritation, and better compatibility with hard water and soaps. But certainly one of the most important aspects of this chemistry is that it avoids the presence of Dichloroacetic Acid, which is on the California Prop 65 list and does not have a safe harbor limit,” Abbeduto continued. “We have a lot of customers who are looking for ingredients without any Prop 65 contaminants, and ColaTeric CAHS is an opportunity to fill that important niche.”
 
ColaTeric CAHS offers identical foam performance when compared to a standard cocoamphoacetate. In-vitro eye irritation testing demonstrates that the product would be considered minimally irritating at typical formulation levels. ColaTeric CAHS offers superior viscosity building capability compared to traditional amphoacetates and is useful in luxury body washes to provide mildness and foam stabilization, in shampoos for improved foam and viscosity boosting, and in facial cleansers for its excellent skin feel. ColaTeric CAHS also provides wet wipe formulations with exceptionally mild foaming and cleansing.
 
Colonial Chemical’s website is a resource for information about other unique sultaine products in the ColaTeric family, which combine the distinct sustainability advantages of their biobased chemistry with improved purity and no California Proposition 65 concerns.