Certificate of Analysis-COA
99% Content
Items tested | Specifications | Results |
Appearance | Colorless oily liquid, after cooling solidification is flaky crystal | Qualified |
Octanoic acid purity % | ≥99.0% | 99.5568% |
Moisture content % | ≤0.4% | 0.03% |
Natural degree test % | / | / |
Acid value | 366-396 | 383 |
As % | ≤0.0001% | 0.00001% |
Heavy metals (Pb) % | ≤0.001 | 0.0001 |
Burning residue check sample (10g) % | ≤0.1 | 0.011 |
Relative density | 0.908-0.913(25/25°C) | 0.9105(25/25°C) |
Refractive index | 1.425-1.428 | 1.4265 |
Solubility | Slightly soluble in hot water, ethanol and glycerol | Qualified |
Applications
1. Flavouring Agent For Food And Beverages: A medium chain fatty acid that occurs naturally in butter fat, coconut and palm kernel oil and mammalian milk, it carries the fatty, waxy, creamy dairy notes that give character to butter, cheese and dairy type flavours.
2. Cleansing And Emulsifying Agent For Cosmetics And Personal Care: Listed in cosmetic ingredient references as a surfactant for cleansing and emulsifying, it also contributes fragrance and perfuming notes, making it useful in soaps and cleansers and other personal care formulations.
3. Raw Material For Flavour And Fragrance Esters: Esterified into methyl, ethyl, allyl, heptyl and nonyl caprylate, it supplies the fruity and waxy notes used in flavour and fragrance compounds, and the same route provides the octanoate esters used across perfumery.
4. Intermediate For Glycerides, Emollients And Emulsifiers: Converted into mono and diglycerides such as monocaprylin and octanoyl decanoyl glycerides and into glycerin caprylate polyoxyethylene ethers, it becomes the oil phase of emollients and the emulsifier component of food and cosmetic systems.
5. Specialty Intermediate For Liquid Crystals And Dyestuffs: Used as a building block in liquid crystal intermediates and in the manufacture of dyestuffs, and it is converted into octanoyl chloride and other octanoate derivatives for use further along fine chemical production.
Quality Assurance
Every batch of chemicals leaves our factory with complete laboratory documentation — not a promise, but verifiable test data. From incoming raw material inspection to finished-goods release, each batch is tested against published specifications, and a Certificate of Analysis (COA) accompanies every single shipment. What you order is exactly what we test — and what we ship.
Tested by our in-house ISO 9001:2015 laboratory. Verified independently by third-party labs on request (SGS / BV / Intertek). Traceable from raw material to your warehouse.
Packaging
Liquid plastic drums
Liquid tonnes
Liquid iron drums
Export-grade packaging, custom labels
Solids (woven bags/cardboard drums/ton bags)
Liquids (plastic drums/IBC/ISO tanks)