Air Care

With a broad portfolio of high-performing products and advanced high-throughput capabilities, Dow can help you deliver differentiated air care products.

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Air Care

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Delivering a fresh and welcoming scent experience

Increasing consumer demand and regulatory requirements are driving the need for air care products that are safer and more effective than ever. Our broad portfolio of glycol ethers, surfactants, solvents and more deliver a range of performance and safety benefits.

Our technologies include alcohols and glycol ether solvents that work synergistically with Dow specialty nonionic surfactants, including bio-based options, to enable efficient fragrance solubilization, emulsification and delivery for an excellent scent experience.

Streamline product testing

Our formulation expertise can help you streamline and accelerate product testing to commercialize faster.

Optimize product performance

Our ingredients can help you optimize product life span, evaporation rate and other performance attributes.

Minimize environmental impact

Our technologies can help you minimize environmental impact during production, use and disposal of end product.

AEROSOLS & SPRAYS
LIQUIDS & GELS

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Increasing safety and effectiveness of aerosols and spray formulations

At Dow, we provide technologies, ingredients and capabilities to help brand owners develop high-performing air fresheners and fabric enhancers in aerosol and spray formats. These products are carefully designed to deliver freshness and improve air quality while still maintaining stability and meeting regulatory requirements.

We offer a wide range of solvents, surfactants and alcohols to enable air care products in aerosol and spray formats that connect excellent performance with an improved environmental profile.

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Glycol Ether Solvents

DOWANOL™ DPM Glycol Ether, DOWANOL™ PnB Glycol Ether and DOWANOL™ PnP Glycol Ether are fast-evaporating solvents that make them excellent alternatives to ethanol in air care products. DOWANOL™ EPh6 Glycol Ether improves solubilization and emulsification of fragrance without filming or streaking effects.

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Specialty Surfactants

Dow’s specialty surfactants such as TERGITOL™ 15-S-9 Surfactant and ECOSURF™ SA-7 Surfactant are designed to perform synergistically with solvents to improve fragrance solubilization in air products at low surfactant levels.

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Alcohols

Dow also offers low-molecular-weight, water-soluble alcohols such as Propylene Glycol and Dipropylene Glycol, which can be used in aerosols and sprays, enhancing the solubility of perfumes and fragrances to improve spray performance and fragrance expression.

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Enabling product efficiency and effectiveness in liquid and gel formulations

At Dow, we provide solutions for air care products in liquid and gel formats to meet consumer demand for a longer-lasting and fresher scent experience.

For liquid formats, our solvents are excellent carriers of fragrance in products such as plug-ins and diffusers. For gel-type products, our solvents help control evaporation rate to ensure consistent delivery of fragrance over several weeks.

With extensive market understanding, Dow offers innovative solutions that connect performance with an improved environmental profile.

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Dow Glycol Ether Solvents

Dow glycol ether solvents enable solubilization of fragrances and the evaporation profile for consistent fresh scent. We offer fast-evaporating solvents such as DOWANOL™ DPM Glycol Ether and VOC-exempt solutions such as DOWANOL™ EPh6 Glycol Ether and DOWANOL™ TPM Glycol Ether. Also, DOWANOL™ DPMA Glycol Ether Acetate is a low-evaporating option with excellent solvency.

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Alcohols

Dow alcohols such as Propylene Glycol and Dipropylene Glycol serve as effective carriers of scents and fragrances in air care products. They provide excellent co-solvency for water, oils and hydrocarbons, with consistent purity, quality, minimal odor, low skin irritation potential and low toxicity.

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Dow Nonionic Surfactants

Dow nonionic surfactants such as ECOSURF™ EH-6 Surfactant and TERGITOL™ ECO-36 Surfactant are readily biodegradable solutions that improve the solubilization and emulsification of fragrance mixtures with other formulation ingredients and polymers, especially for aqueous air freshener gels.