Cocamide diethanolamine (cocamide diethanolamine production)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product cocamide diethanolamine is used mainly in the cosmetic industry. Cosmetic products contain between 1 to 25% of diethanolamine. Other uses for this product are: as a surfactants in soap as a cleaning and delinting agent (Elbers 2013). Reference(s): Gendorf (2016) Umwelterklärung 2015 Werk Gendorf Industriepark www.gendorf.de Elbers E. 2013. Some Chemicals Present in Industrial and Consumer Products Food and Drinking-water. In IARC MONOGRAPHS ON THE EVALUATION OF CARCINOGENIC RISKS TO HUMANS Vol.101 pp.141-148 WHO Press Geneva. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.