1. Used for the production of paper and cellulose pulp; Used for the production of soap, synthetic detergents, synthetic fatty acids, and the refining of animal and vegetable fats.
2. The textile printing and dyeing industry uses it as a cotton fabric desizing agent, refining agent, and silk finishing agent.
3. The chemical industry is used to produce borax, sodium cyanide, formic acid, oxalic acid, phenol, etc. The petroleum industry is used to refine petroleum products and in drilling mud for oil fields.
4. It is also used for surface treatment in the production of alumina, metallic zinc, and metallic copper, as well as in glass, enamel, leather, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and pesticides.
5. Food grade products are used in the food industry as acid neutralizers, peelers for citrus, peach, and other fruits, detergents for empty bottles, cans, and other containers, as well as decolorizers and deodorizers.
6. Widely used basic analytical reagents. Prepare standard alkaline solution for analysis. Absorbent for small amounts of carbon dioxide and water. Neutralization of acid. Sodium salt production. Widely used in papermaking, chemical industry, printing and dyeing, medicine, metallurgy (aluminum refining), chemical fiber, electroplating, water treatment, exhaust gas treatment, etc.
7. Used as a neutralizing agent, a masking agent, a precipitant, a precipitation masking agent, and a chromogenic agent for the determination of ketosteroids by thin-layer analysis. Used for sodium salt preparation and saponification agent. Used for manufacturing various sodium salts, soaps, pulp, sorting cotton fabrics, silk, viscose fibers, recycling of rubber products, metal cleaning, electroplating, bleaching, etc.
8. In the cosmetics cream category, this product and saponification such as stearic acid act as emulsifiers, used to manufacture creams, shampoos, etc.