Surface Care
Dow’s formulation expertise, high throughput capabilities and broad portfolio of innovative solutions can help you create new and differentiated surface care products that deliver performance and convenience.
Providing innovative ingredients for exceptional cleaning and shine
Surface care is a diverse category of cleaners ranging from kitchen cleaners to bathroom cleaners and even floor cleaners. Dow offers a broad portfolio of solutions to enable multipurpose products and various formats. Dow’s decades of industry expertise can help you formulate safe surface cleaning products that are tough on dirt but gentle on the planet.
Dow’s diverse portfolio of chemistries includes surfactants, solvents, amines, rheology modifiers, foam control solutions among other technologies to support brand owners developing surface cleaning products that meet consumer needs and regulatory requirements.
Innovative solutions for versatile, differentiated kitchen and oven cleaners
Kitchen surfaces and ovens present some of the most difficult cleaning challenges for consumers. Kitchen grease can build up on surfaces over time – and once it’s baked on, it’s even more difficult to remove.
At Dow, we offer decades of cleaning expertise and broad technical solutions to help you develop kitchen and oven formulations that are both effective and efficient in meeting these cleaning challenges. Our extensive product portfolio includes ingredients to provide greater value, convenience and environmental benefits.
Remove kitchen soils
To boost cleaning performance for tough kitchen soils, Dow offers DOWANOL™ PPH and DOWANOL™ DPnB Glycol Ethers, as well as Hexyl CELLOSOLVE™ Solvents.
Soften baked-on grease
To soften solid fatty soils and make cleaners more effective at removing baked-on grease, Dow offers organic alkalinizing agents and solvents, including Monoethanolamine, Monoisopropanolamine and Diisopropanolamine.
Improve wetting and detergency
To improve wetting, solubilizing, emulsifying and detergency in surface cleaners, Dow offers a range of surfactants, including ECOSURF™ EH-9 Surfactant and TERGITOL™ 15-S-9 Surfactant.
Enhance texture and viscosity
To improve the viscosity and texture in surface cleaning formulations, Dow offers versatile ingredients such as CELLOSIZE™ QP-100MH Hydroxyethyl Cellulose and ACUSOL™ 820 Rheology Modifier.
Boost ease of cleaning
To boost cleaning power, ACUSOL™ PRO Hard Surface Care Polymer is an anionically charged, water-soluble polymer that provides streak-free cleaning and superior grease removal – making next-time cleaning easier without contributing to build-up.
Dissolve scales
To improve surface cleaning formulations by effectively dissolving inorganic scales, Dow offers high-performing ingredients like VERSENE™ 100 Chelating Agent.
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Surface Care resources
Connecting material science and application know-how from our experts.
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