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Cocamide DEA, or cocamide diethanolamine, is a diethanolamide made by reacting the mixture of fatty acids from coconut oils with diethanolamine.
Cocamide diethanolamine is a viscous liquid and is used as a foaming agent in bath products like shampoos and hand soaps, and in cosmetics as an emulsifying agent.
The chemical formula of individual components is CH3(CH2)nC(=O)N(CH2CH2OH)2, where n typically ranges from 8 to 18.
CAS: 68603-42-9
EINECS: 271-657-0
Description
Cocamide diethanolamine is also named N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl) coco fatty acid diethanolamide, coconut fatty acid diethanolamide, cocoyl diethanolamide, and coconut oil acid diethanolamide.
Cocamide diethanolamine is manufactured from coconut oil and is widely used in industry and at horne as a surface-active agent.
Cocamide diethanolamine is contained in hand gels, handwashing soaps, shampoos and dish-washing liquids for its foam-producing and stabilizing properties, and in metalworking fluids and polishing agents as an anticorrosion inhibitor.
Viscous amber or yellow liquid. pH (1% aqueous solution) 9.
Cocamide diethanolamine (aka cocamide DEA) is extracted from coconut oil, and is used as a foaming and emulsifying agent in cosmetics and personal care products.
Cocamide diethanolamine is also used in industrial cooling lubricants and hydraulic fluids.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) lists Cocamide diethanolamine as an IARC Group 2B carcinogen, which identifies this chemical as possibly carcinogenic to humans.
The listing is based on a dermal animal bioassay.
In June 2012, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment added Cocamide diethanolamine to the California Proposition 65 (1986) list of chemicals known to cause cancer.
Cocamide diethanolamine has a high irritation potential.
Cocamide diethanolamine, or cocamide DEA, is a diethanolamide made by reacting the mixture of fatty acids from coconut oils with diethanolamine.
Cocamide diethanolamine is derived from coconut fatty acids that boosts foam and increases viscosity in shampoos.
Cocamide diethanolamine can also be used in soaps, bubble baths and other bath products.
Cocamide diethanolamine is a viscous liquid and is used as a foaming agent in bath products like shampoos and hand soaps, and in cosmetics as an emulsifying agent.
Cocamide diethanolamine has good wetting, cleaning, dispersing, resistance to hard water and antistatic performances.
Cocamide diethanolamine especially has perfect thickening, foaming, foam-stabilizing and derusting abilities.
Compounded with other anionic surfactants, such as LES, its foaming ability will be obviously improved, and foam is more affluent, stable and long standing.
Cocamide diethanolamine Chemical Properties
Boiling point: 168-274°C
Water Solubility: 5-10 g/100 mL at 18 ºC
Stability: Stable. Combustible. Incompatible with strong oxidizing agents.
IARC: 2B (Vol. 101) 2013
EPA Substance Registry System: Cocamide diethanolamine (68603-42-9)
Cocamide diethanolamine is a nonionic surfactant, and the thickening effect is particularly obvious when the anionic surfactant is acidic,can be combined with a variety of surfactants.
Cocamide diethanolamine can enhance the cleaning effect, can be used as additives, foam stabilizer, foaming agent, mainly used in the manufacture of shampoo and liquid detergent.
In the water to form an opaque mist solution, under a certain stirring can be completely transparent, in a certain concentration can be completely dissolved in different types of surfactants, in low carbon and high carbon can also be completely dissolved.
Uses
Cocamide diethanolamine is a mixture of ethanolamides of coconut acid.
Cocamide diethanolamine is a component in bath, shower and body cosmetics and in cooling fluids; emulsifying agent; emulsion stabilizer; surfactant- and viscosity-controlling agent.
Cocamide diethanolamine is a thickener and viscosity builder for cosmetic surfactant systems.
Cocamide diethanolamine is added to lauryl sulfate-based liquid cleansers to help stabilize the lather and improve foam formation.
Cocamide diethanolamine can be used as a hair conditioning agent, a viscosity booster, a foam booster and provides required viscosities at lower electrolyte levels.
Cocamide diethanolamine is commonly used in Bubble Bath, Shampoos, Hand Soaps & Liquid Detergents.
Cocamide diethanolamine, including coconut oil diethanolamine condensate, are widely used in cosmetics.
In 1985, Cocamide diethanolamine condensate was reported to be present in nearly 600 cosmetic formulations of bath oil, shampoo, conditioner, lipstick and hair dye.
The concentration of diethanolamide in these preparations ranged from 1 to 25%.
Non-cosmetic applications include use as a surfactant in soap bars, light-duty detergents and dishwashing detergents and as a delinting agent for cottonseed (CTFA, 1986).
Cocamide diethanolamine is used as a corrosion inhibitor in water-based soluble, semi-synthetic and synthetic metal-working fluids and in polishing agents (Byers, 2006).
Cocamide diethanolamine is also used widely as an antistatic agent in plastics, e.g. in polyethylene film for food packaging and rigid poly(vinyl) chloride.
Cocamide diethanolamine has been employed in combination with metallic salts as an antistatic for polystyrene and in impact-resistant rubber polystyrene blends (HSDB, 2010).
Cocamide diethanolamine is used in skin care and hair care products as a foaming agent.
Cocamide diethanolamine also helps keep the ingredients together and results in a more stable formulation.
Skin care: Cocamide diethanolamine enables both oil and water to be mixed in evenly and also increases the foaming capacity of products like bubble baths
Hair care: Conditioners and shampoos with Cocamide diethanolamine have the ability to trap any oil-based dirt on hair and rinse it off.
Cocamide diethanolamine is also a thickener and improves the texture of products
Reactivity Profile
Cocamide diethanolamine is a mixture of amines.
Amines are chemical bases.
They neutralize acids to form salts plus water.
These acid-base reactions are exothermic.
The amount of heat that is evolved per mole of amine in a neutralization is largely independent of the strength of the amine as a base.
Amines may be incompatible with isocyanates, halogenated organics, peroxides, phenols (acidic), epoxides, anhydrides, and acid halides.
Flammable gaseous hydrogen is generated by amines in combination with strong reducing agents, such as hydrides.
Cocamide diethanolamine, manufactured from coconut oil, is widely used in industry and at home as a surface-active agent.
Cocamide diethanolamine is contained in hand gels, hand washing soaps, shampoos, and dish-washing liquids for its foam-producing and stabilizing properties, and in metal working fluids and polishing agents as an anticorrosion inhibitor.
Synonyms:
amides,coco,n,n-bis(2-hydroxyethyl);
Amides,coco,N,N-bi(hydroxyethyl);
clindrol200cgn;
clindrol202cgn;
clindrolsuperamide100cg;
Coconutacid,diethanolamide;
COCAMIDE DIETHANOLAMINE;
N,N-Bis(hydroxyethyl)coco amides
clindrol200cgn
clindrol202cgn
UNII-92005F972D
clindrolsuperamide100cg
COCAMIDE DIETHANOLAMINE
Coconutacid,diethanolamide
N,N-Bishydroxyethyl cocoamine
Coco bis(2-hydroxyethyl)amine
N,N-Bis(hydroxyethyl)cocoamine
N,N-Bis(hydroxyethyl)coco amides
Amides,coco,N,N-bis(hydroxyethyl)
Amides, coco, N,N-bis(hydroxyethyl)
amides,coco,n,n-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)
Diethanolamine N-coco alkyl derivs.
Diethanolamine of coconut fatty acid
Diethanolamine coconut fatty acid condensate
Ethanol, 2,2'-iminobis-, N-coco alkyl derivs.
N,N-Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)(coconut oil alkyl)amine
