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Gentle, gentler - that's DMAPA
INCREASING DEMAND
Chemical intermediate adds fun to taking a shower
They do not sting your eyes and are gentle to the scalp. Demand for mild gels and shampoos is growing throughout the world. With its dimethylaminopropylamine, DMAPA for short, BASF supplies an important intermediate for the manufacture of gentle skin care products.
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Most of the specialty amines are processed into amphoteric tensides, feedstocks for personal care products. Cocoamidopropyl betaine, known as a co-surfactant, makes shampoos, shower gels and liquid soaps gentle. It does not sting your eyes, yields a pleasing fluffy foam and is compatible with other shampoo additives.
DMAPA's growing momentum has been propelled since the close of the eighties and early nineties by the rising popularity of liquid soaps in Europe and the United States and the resulting greater demand for surfactants friendly to the skin. The Asian market is currently staging the greatest growth because shower gels are also gaining in acceptance there. BASF is the world's largest producer of DMAPA and the only manufacturer to be completely back-integrated, which means that the company makes both dimethylamine and acrylonitrile, the required raw materials, in house. As a result BASF is positioned to be able to offer not only a high degree of reliability in supplying product, but also unchanging top-level product quality.
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