Distilled fatty acids

Distilled fatty acids have a wide range of applications in consumer and industrial markets. They are generally liquids or soft solids, and contain a mixed composition of acids reflecting the parent oil or fat. Croda's distilled fatty acids are important raw materials for the production of soaps, detergents, surfactants and lubricants, as well as providing the source raw materials for oleines, stearines, dimer acids, fractionated fatty acids and others. In the production of soaps and detergents, blends of distilled fatty acids are used to optimise properties such as lather generation (quality and quantity), dissolution rate, product viscosity and skin feel.

Polyunsaturated fatty acids, derived from soft oils such as sunflower and soya, react with air to form a film or coating; for this reason, they are used in the production of paints, inks, and special surface cleaning soaps.