AccessPON CHS

Mild Amphoteric Surfactant for High-Foam, Viscosity-Building Cleansers

INCI Name: Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine

AccessPON CHS is a high-performing amphoteric surfactant known for its exceptional mildness, making it perfect for gentle cleansers like baby washes and shampoos. Based on Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, it not only boosts foam to create a rich, luxurious lather but also helps thicken your formulas. Its excellent performance in hard water ensures your products work beautifully for all users, leaving skin and hair feeling soft and conditioned.

Perfect For These Applications

Other cosmetic uses possible—contact us for formulation guidance.

Sulfate-Free Shampoos

Creates a dense, creamy lather while gently cleansing the hair and scalp, reducing irritation and improving wet combability.
Gentle Body Washes

Builds viscosity for a rich, gel-like texture and provides excellent foam, leaving skin feeling clean and soft without stripping natural oils.
Baby Washes & Shampoos

Offers superior mildness, making it an ideal primary or secondary surfactant for tear-free and sensitive skin formulations.
Luxury Bubble Baths

Produces a long-lasting, stable foam blanket, even in hard water, for a luxurious bathing experience.
Facial Cleansers

Provides effective cleansing with a gentle touch to support non-stripping formulas suitable for daily use on all skin types.
Hand Soaps

Contributes to a thick, satisfying texture and rich foam, enhancing user experience while effectively cleansing hands.

How to Use AccessPON CHS in Your Formulations

Understanding AccessPON CHS

Think of AccessPON CHS as the gentle workhorse for any product that needs to foam. It is an amphoteric surfactant, which makes it incredibly versatile and mild. Its primary role is to cleanse and create bubbles, but it does much more. Unlike harsh cleansers that can leave skin feeling tight and dry, AccessPON CHS is exceptionally gentle, making it a top choice for baby products and sensitive skin formulas.

For the chemist: AccessPON CHS (Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine) is an amphoteric surfactant effective and stable across a broad pH range (about 3–9). It reduces the irritation potential of anionic surfactants by forming mixed micelles, making it an excellent co-surfactant. Its structure imparts inherent conditioning and viscosity-building in cleansing systems, often reducing the need for separate thickeners. It also acts as a hydrotrope, aiding the solubilization of other ingredients.

One of its standout features is excellent performance in hard water. Where mineral content can cause soap scum and poor lather, AccessPON CHS disperses lime soap and maintains rich, stable foam that rinses cleanly.

Formulation Tips

Use AccessPON CHS as a primary surfactant for ultra-mild cleansers or as a co-surfactant to boost foam, build viscosity, and reduce the harshness of other cleansing agents. A good starting range is 5–15% alongside other surfactants. For very gentle systems where it serves as a main cleanser, use 15–30%.

To incorporate, simply disperse AccessPON CHS into the water phase at room temperature and mix until uniform. It is compatible with anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants, making it highly flexible in shampoos, body washes, facial cleansers, and bubble baths. It performs best in finished product pH of about 4–8.

Key Performance Benefits:

Exceptionally Mild: Ideal for baby washes, facial cleansers, and sensitive scalp shampoos without sacrificing cleansing power.
Rich, Creamy Foam: Produces dense, stable lather and boosts foam in blends for a luxurious cleanse.
Builds Viscosity: Helps create gel-like textures with reduced need for additional thickeners.
Excellent Hard Water Performance: Disperses lime soap to maintain foam quality and clean rinse.
Improves Conditioning: Leaves skin and hair feeling soft and conditioned after rinsing.
Sulfate-Free Friendly: Perfect for high-performing sulfate-free shampoos and body washes.

Heading #1
Benefits	Clean & Natural, Formulation Versatility, Multi-Functional, Rich & Luxurious, Sulfate-Free, Texture & Sensory
INCI Name	Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine
Usage Rate	2%-30%
Functional Type	Amphoteric Surfactants, Mild Cleansing Agents, Surfactants & Cleansing Agents, Thickeners & Rheology Modifiers
Phase Compatibility	Water Phase
Application Area	Body, Face, Hair, Scalp
Product Type Suitability	Bath Products, Cleansers, Conditioners, Shampoos, Wet Wipes
Certifications	Biodegradable
Physical Form	Liquid

Frequently Asked Questions About AccessPON CHS

AccessPON CHS is a multi-functional cleansing agent. It creates rich foam, gently cleanses the skin and hair, helps build a gel-like viscosity, and leaves a soft, conditioned after-feel.

Use 5–15% as a co-surfactant in most systems. For extra-gentle formulas where this is a primary cleanser, use up to 30%. Start low, then adjust based on desired foam and thickness.

Absolutely. AccessPON CHS is excellent for sulfate-free systems, restoring rich, satisfying foam while remaining gentle on hair and scalp.

Add it to the water phase at the start. It disperses easily at room temperature, so no heating is required.

Both are mild amphoteric surfactants, but Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine is generally milder, a stronger foam booster, a better viscosity builder, and offers superior hard water performance.

Yes. Water-based products like shampoos and body washes require a broad-spectrum preservative. This ingredient is a surfactant, not a preservative.

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