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Cocamide is a mixture of manufactured from the obtained from coconut oil. As coconut oil contains about 50% of lauric acid, in formulas only the 12-carbon chains tend to be considered. Therefore the formula of cocamide can be written as , though the number of carbon atoms in the chains varies (it is always even).
Cocamide is the structural basis of many . Common are ethanolamines (cocamide MEA, cocamide DEA), betaine compounds (cocamidopropyl betaine), and (cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine).
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