An ester quat, short for ester quaternary ammonium compound, is a type of cationic surfactant.
Cationic Surfactant: Surfactants are molecules that can lower the surface tension of liquids, allowing them to spread and mix more easily.
Cationic surfactants have a positively charged head group attracted to negatively charged surfaces like dirt and oil. This attraction helps lift and remove dirt during cleaning.
Ester: An ester is a functional group formed by the reaction between an alcohol and a carboxylic acid.
Quaternary Ammonium Compound: This refers to a molecule with a central nitrogen atom bonded to four other groups, at least one of which is an alkyl chain (hydrocarbon chain).
INCI name | Ester Quats / Methyl Triethanol Ammonium Methyl Sulfate Distearl Ester |
Trade name | MONSA® EQ-90 |
CAS No. | 91995-81-2 |
Molecular formula | C6H15NO3.C2H6O4S.Unspecified |
Dosage | 5~8% (regular) or 18 ~25%(concentrated) |
Packaging | 190kg per plastic drum |
Synonym | Fatty acids, C10-20 and C16-18-unsatd., reaction products with triethanolamine, di-Me sulfate-quaternized |
CAS No. 91995-81-2 is a cationic surfactant of the new generation of ester quats.
The main characteristic is good softness and prominent biodegradation, excellent compatibility, dispersion, circulation moisturizing etc.
It is the latest international environmental protection softener raw materials.
In the industrial and civil used as softener also won't appear to become yellow even use high concentration products.
It’s more suitable to produce concentrated products compared with the similar products, also suitable to be made into liquid products, and the concentrated products can be as high as 30%, convenient to produce emulsion and form the stable emulsion.