Cocamide diethanolamine (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for cocamide diethanolamine. The reference product is cocamide diethanolamine. 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 reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/16579/documentation.