Quest Premium Bentonite is a high quality near-white bentonite with excellent swell and gel properties. It is available in Calcium and Sodium forms as a powder or granule. It can also be supplied as a coloured granule. Quest Premium bentonite is used in "2-in-1" detergent powders for "softening-through-the-wash". Quest Premium has excellent fabric softness benefits.
FABRIC SOFTNESS
In independent panel tests, Quest Premium has shown significant softness benefits for established washing powder formulations. Used as a "softergent" worldwide, Quest Premium provides softening-through the-wash that is easy to formulate in - by simply adding to existing detergent formulations.
COST EFFECTIVE
Quest Premium is a highly cost effective mechanism for introducing softening-through-the-wash into a formulation. Quest Premium granule post addition is a simple blending process and provides significant product benefits at little formulation cost.
STAIN REMOVAL AND WHITENESS
Quest Premium is a high whiteness bentonite that has no discernible adverse effect on fabric whiteness - even over multiple wash cycles. Stain removal is not impaired.
Bentonite is a natural clay of the smectite family. It's platelet structure makes it a versatile mineral used in detergents as a softening agent. Other applications are in civil engineering, the foundry industry, paper mills, cosmetics, and oilfield drilling.
Bentonites are available from AMCOL Household & Fabric Care in two forms. The first is a Calcium form which doesn't swell or gel in water – common applications in European fabric wash conditions. The second is a Sodium form which swells and can form thixotropic gels in water – common applications in dilute and cold wash conditions (Asia and The Americas).
Products for the detergent industry are normally supplied as granules, but certain applications can be better optimised using the powder forms.