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fatty alcohol

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fatty alcohol,
a hydroxy derivative of a hydrocarbon from the paraffin series.


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The fatty alcohols like cetyl, stearyl and ceteryl are used as emollients but are often wrongly associated with ethyl.
CONDEA Vista Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of RWE-DEA of Germany, is a producer of commodity and specialty chemicals including linear alkylbenzene, fatty alcohols, alcohol ethoxylates, aluminas and solvents.
The line includes numerous grades of MIGLYOL(R) emollients and gelled oils; SOFTIGEN(R) superfatting agent, DYNASAN(R) monoacid triglycerides; SOFTISAN(R) triglycerideL(R) and NAFOL(R) linear primary alcohol homologincluding linear alkylbenzene, fatty alcohols, well as other consumer products.
 
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