Amphi® improves formulation performance through multifunctional glycolipid chemistry that enhances interfacial behavior across systems.
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Amphi® is a family of glycolipid biosurfactant co-surfactants designed to enhance formulation performance across industrial and consumer applications. It integrates into existing surfactant systems to improve wetting, emulsification, dispersion, and stability—delivering measurable results without requiring full system reformulation. The platform includes two performance grades—Amphi® CH (~HLB 11) for more hydrophilic systems and Amphi® CL (~HLB 9) for more hydrophobic applications—allowing formulators to select the profile that best aligns with their formulation requirements.
Amphi® improves formulation performance through multifunctional glycolipid chemistry that enhances interfacial behavior across systems.
Amphi® CL and CH are glycolipid biosurfactants designed to improve wetting, dispersion, emulsification, and detergency in industrial and consumer formulations.
They are engineered for different formulation environments:
Both share the same core chemistry but are tuned for different performance outcomes.
Amphi biosurfactants reduce surface and interfacial tension and form micelles that interact with oils, particles, and surfaces.
Key functional effects:
Their low critical micelle concentration (CMC) allows them to be effective at lower use rates.
Most conventional surfactants are optimized for one function (wetting, emulsification, or detergency).
Amphi biosurfactants provide multi-functional performance, enabling formulators to:
They are not 1:1 replacements—they are performance enhancers within a system.
No—and that’s intentional.
Amphi is designed to be formulation-flexible, not a direct substitute.
Formulators typically use it to:
Depending on the system:
Amphi CL:
Amphi CH:
Amphi biosurfactants form smaller micelles than many conventional surfactants, which allows:
This is one of the key drivers of performance at lower use rates.
They are designed to work within multi-component systems.
Performance benefits are typically observed in:
Results depend on formulation design, but they are built to improve system-level performance, not just single metrics.
Yes - we routinely see excellent synergies with conventional ingredients.
Amphi biosurfactants help:
Amphi biosurfactants maintain activity across a broad pH range (~2–10) and perform well under challenging formulation conditions.
This makes them suitable for:
Amphi helps restore or improve performance without overloading the system.
valued
They deliver functional advantages at the interface, AND they have desirable sustainability profiles.
But performance is the primary reason they’re used.
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