The product is a white or kind of white powder or sense of a satiny crystalline solid mass, the profile of a microstrip burnish fine needle crystal; Have a similar of grease micro smelly, tasteless. This product in the chloroform or ethyl ether easily dissolved, dissolved in ethanol, almost don't dissolve in water. The product of low-freezing low-freezing (appendix Ⅵ D) not less than 54 ℃. Iodine value this product iodine value (appendix Ⅶ H) is not more than 4. Acid value this product acid value (appendix Ⅶ H) for 203 ~ 210. Stearic acid easy and magnesium ions and calcium magnesium stearate and reacts calcium stearate (white precipitation).

Mainly for the production of stearic acid salt: stearic acid sodium magnesium stearate stearic acid calcium stearate lead stearic acid aluminum stearic acid cadmium stearic acid iron stearic acid potassium widely used to make cosmetics, plastic hardy plasticizer, softening agent, stabilizing agent, surfactant, rubber sulfide accelerator and water-proofing agent and polishes, metal soap, metal mineral flotation agents, softener, pharmaceuticals and other organic chemicals. In addition, also can be used as oil-soluble pigment solvent, the slippery agent, the crayon emptying his agent, stearic acid triglyceride emulsifier, etc.