Environmentally compatible sugar surfactants

Environmentally friendly, powerful, and kind to the skin

The green alternative for sustainable cleansing

There is much emphasis on the origin of ingredients, their impact on the environment, and their carbon footprint. Turn these needs to your advantage and meet the demands of the market with our 100% plant-based sugar surfactants, the so-called APGs (alkyl polyglucosides).

Biodegradable with no compromise on cleansing

Sugar surfactants are non-ionic surfactants derived entirely from the renewable raw materials glucose (from corn starch) and fatty alcohols (from coconut or RSPO-MB palm oil). They are COSMOS-compliant, biodegradable, highly foaming, and contain no skin-irritating ingredients. APGs are also resistant to hydrolysis and have good soil release and soil carrying capacity due to their HLB value of >10. In addition, they are compatible with other anionic, cationic, or non-ionic surfactants.

Due to these special and diverse properties, many areas are now inconceivable without them. The wide range of applications extends from shampoos and shower gels to bath additives and cleaning agents – be sure to consider our broad portfolio of APGs.

APG portfolio at a glance

Please also take a look at our brochure.

Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact me!

Stefan Koch
Head of BU Life Science

Phone: +49 40 300 501 8141
E-mail: s.koch@terchemicals.com