Nonylphenol ethoxylates

Author: Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

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Synonym(s)

NPE; NPEO

Definition
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Nonylphenol ethoxylates represent a group of non-ionic surfactants derived from nonylphenols. They differ in the number of hydrophilic ethoxy units of the polyethylene glycol side chain. Their most frequent representatives used in cosmetics are:

nonoxinol-1 to nonoxinol-18

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

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