UV Light Stabilizers, Antioxidants, Fluorescent Whitening Agents (FWA) for Laundry and Detergents

Stabilizers act as UV absorbers and antioxidants against the degradation of colourants, the degradation of perfumes or other ingredients which are sensitive against auto-oxidation like fatty acids or oils, besides others. In addition to these product solution, BTC Europe offers a unique technology - Excited State Quencher™ (ESQ®) - enabling synergistic performance with UV absorbers. Our stabilizers are specifically designed to the needs of cleaning and detergents agents like textile whitening.

Additives for textile whitening are used in laundry formulations to enhance the whiteness of the washed textile. The textile material, like cotton, wool, linen, silk or synthetics like mainly polyamide, polyester or polyacrylonitrile, are not completely white, rather they can show a yellowing after certain washing cycles. Premium laundry formulations often contain optical brighteners to cross-fade this simply by a fluorescening effect.

Tinopal® grades from BTC are optical brighteners for laundry detergent formulations. They are used in home care formulations and in On Premise Laundry (OPL) formulations.

Our Cibafast® and Tinogard® UV light stabilizers, Tinogard® antioxidants and Tinogard® Excited State Quencher™ (ESQ®) technolgy are used, besides others, in formulations for

• air care products,
• hard surface cleaners,
• manual dishwashing liquids.

Excited State Quencher™ (ESQ®) technology is often combined with UV light stabilizers to improve performance by synergistic effects.

Tinopal® optical brighteners are

• used in laundry formulations with the aim to enhance the whiteness of wash textiles.
• either liquid in form of a suspension or solid with a uniform particle distribution.
• equally suitable for incorporation in conventional or compact washing powders, liquid detergents, and industrial detergents, detergent bars, washing cream, after rinse softener, soaps and boosters.