Essential Care Chemicals

Sasol’s Essential Care Chemicals business division is a market leader in the production and commercialization of high-value product streams for three distinct markets: Fabric Home Care, Industrial and Institutional Cleaning; Personal Care, Health and Wellness; and Technical Formulations to support industrial applications.

As one of the world’s largest manufacturers of surfactants, our large-scale integrated value chains, market knowledge, unique chemistry and global presence provide unmatched value to customers in search of specialty, high-performance solutions. Our sizeable product portfolio, and focus on sustainable and circular solutions, consists of a wide variety of surfactants, surfactant intermediates, biosurfactants, fatty alcohols and linear alkyl benzene, and include responsibly sourced, sustainable raw materials such as synthetic, palm-free, natural renewable and/or low carbon footprint.
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Fabric and Homecare, Institutional and Industrial Cleaning

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Sasol offers customers in the fabric, home care, institutional and industrial cleaning markets an extensive range of ingredients and technical solutions to enhance product performance. Our customer-centric approach promotes close collaboration with customers in the development of high-performing solutions, resulting in products tailored to specific applications, and include responsibly sourced sustainable raw materials such as synthetic (Ziegler), palm-free, natural renewable and/or low carbon footprint. Our fabric, home care, institutional and industrial cleaning product portfolio consists of linear alkyl benzene and sulfonate; fatty alcohols, alkoxylates and ether sulfates; polyethylene glycol (PEG) PEG, solvents, dispersants and diluents esters and biosurfactants – sophorolipids, both lactonic and acidic form (tradename LIVINEX SL L and LIVINEX SL A).

Personal Care, Health, and Wellness

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Sasol offers customers in the personal care, health and wellness markets a diverse range of ingredients and solutions for use in many personal care, cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications, including emollients, lubricants and emulsifiers; skin-feel modifiers and solubilizers (for leave-on products); conditioning agents, surfactants and cleaning ingredients (for rinse-off formulations); and pharmaceutical excipients. Our customer-centric approach promotes close collaboration with customers in the development of high-performing solutions, resulting in products tailored to specific applications, and include responsibly sourced sustainable raw materials such as synthetic, palm -free, natural renewable and/or low carbon footprint.

Our product offerings include:

macrogol/polyethylene glycol PEG; multifunctional alpha-hydroxy acids (AHA) esters, waxes, dispersants and diluents; solvents (including ethanol, isopropyl, n-propanol, acetone, MIBK and ethyl acetate); Guerbet alcohols; Biosurfactants – sophorolipids, both lactonic and acidic form (tradename CARINEX SL L and CARINEX SL A). 

Technical Formulations

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Sasol offers customers and formulators in industrial markets technical support via an extensive range of high-performance functional additives, components and unique solutions that enable technical processes and facilitate the production of industrial goods. Customers use our products as emulsifiers, foamers, defoamers, inhibitors, dispersants, solvents, carriers, cleaning agents, spacer fluids, wetting agents, viscosity modifiers and pour point depressants.

Our customer-centric approach promotes close collaboration with customers in the development of high-performing solutions, resulting in products tailored to specific applications. Given our global presence and our commitment to sustainability, these solutions include responsibly sourced, sustainable raw materials such as synthetic, palm-free, natural renewable and/or low carbon footprint.

Explore our selected range of products, including: C6-C20+ alcohols (linear/semi-linear/ branched); Guerbet alcohols; nonionic surfactants: ethoxylates, propoxylates, paraffins/isoparaffins, parafols, PEGs, amines, alkylphenols, sulfates, ether sulfates and sophorolipid biosurfactants available in both lactonic and acidic forms.

Fabric and Homecare, Institutional and Industrial Cleaning

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Sasol offers customers in the fabric, home care, institutional and industrial cleaning markets an extensive range of ingredients and technical solutions to enhance product performance. Our customer-centric approach promotes close collaboration with customers in the development of high-performing solutions, resulting in products tailored to specific applications, and include responsibly sourced sustainable raw materials such as synthetic (Ziegler), palm-free, natural renewable and/or low carbon footprint. Our fabric, home care, institutional and industrial cleaning product portfolio consists of linear alkyl benzene and sulfonate; fatty alcohols, alkoxylates and ether sulfates; polyethylene glycol (PEG) PEG, solvents, dispersants and diluents esters and biosurfactants – sophorolipids, both lactonic and acidic form (tradename LIVINEX SL L and LIVINEX SL A).