Triethanolamines

Author:Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

Last updated on: 29.10.2020

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Colourless, slightly fishy-smelling compound. Triethanolamines easily react with fatty acids to form triethanolamine soaps and are used as basic components in soaps and cosmetics (e.g. in foaming shaving creams). Triethanolamine is a pharmaceutical excipient e.g. in pharmaceutical gels.

Technically triethanolamine is used as wetting agent for textiles and as softener in the leather industry.

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

Author: Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer