Tallow Amines

Fatty amine ethoxylates are nonionic surfactants used as wetting and dispersing agents, stabilizers, sanitizers and defoaming agents in various industries like textile, paper, drilling, chemical, paint, metal etc. The fatty amine ethoxylates are used as emulsifiers and can also be employed in formulation of emulsifier blends. They play an important role as emulsifiers in agrochemical industries, cleaners in industrial processes especially in metal industry, oil field chemicals, fabric softeners, petroleum additives and for applications in textile and leather processing, paper de-inking, mining & drilling. The popular product used for soaps, leather dressings, candles, food, and lubricant applications in industries, tallow amine ethoxylate is derived from ethoxylation of tallow amine which is prepared from tallow, a hard fat usually extracted from fatty deposits of animals. Tallow consists chiefly of glyceryl esters of oleic, palmitic, and stearic acids.
The oleyl amine ethoxylates are best used in textile applications. With high affinity for surfaces these products are good for coating applications and as such are used for coating cloth, yarn etc. They are good emulsifiers and are used in many cleaning and detergent formulations due to their antistatic behaviour and dispersing abilities. In the similar way stearyl amine ethoxylates and coco amine ethoxylates are the two other widely used industrial surfactant products employed in different forms for various applications in diverse industries.