Calfoam = Foaming Agent

[donniej]

This is a chemical which has no application other than to make soap suds. It's not a surfactant that makes suds, Calfoam *only* makes suds.

I know this because I started buying (empty) drums from a local detergent maker. While pressure washing out the bits around the egdes, it suds up and never stops! It doesn't make anything clean either, just sudsy.

I don't know what consistency it comes in but the stuff left in the drums is a thick gel. I don't know much else about it but thought someone might be able to use this info.

 

[Guest]

That is interesting for sure , I wonder what makes it make suds ?

Kitn

 

[carebear]

ooh, I dunno - according to the web site they make a wide variety of detergents/surfactants.

which one is it?

http://www.pilotchemical.com/productgroups/index/5

 

[donniej]

I'll get the info off a drum.

The plant manager told me the stuff is only for suds, they add it to stuff like dish detergent for that purpose. I also tried to clean my hands with it and it doesn't make anything clean, just sudsy... and a little goes a long way!

 

[donniej]

model info = ES 603.

 

[Deda]

http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/ingred ... d06=700373

This is from Skin Deep/EWG.

 

[donniej]

This is from the manufacturer...
http://docs.pilotchemical.com/QMS/Data_ ... ES-603.pdf

 

[carebear]

It's a detergent. well a surfactant, and "Surfactants constitute the most important group of detergent components"
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-scienc ... tants.html

 

[meganjane]

It sounds like industrial wetter.
Wetter is used as a spray adjuvant for chemicals applied to plants.

 

[DelightSociety]

It sounds like loads of fun!!

Can anyone say Foam Party!

 

[Guest]

It sounds like loads of fun!!

Can anyone say Foam Party!

:shock:

 

[donniej]

I was thinking the same thing!!! Foam party that is. There's a local night club that does an occassional foam party, ironically that club's name is "Shampoo"

I've been there for one or two and it's a great time. The soap does have a slight scent though, like cotton candy IIRC (it's been a few years). It's the same kind of suds too... the foam parties get 4 or 5 feet of thick suds with no water on the bottom.