Chemicals / Reagents

The Lab Chemicals and Reagents Collection at Boekel Scientific keeps your team in the mix. From cleaners that prevent cross-contamination to fixatives that keep tissue samples locked down to stains to dye for, our collection causes all the right reactions.

Clean and Sticky

A good lab has to be two things: clean and sticky. Clean means avoiding cross-contamination with universal precautions, regular water bath cleaning and other sensible procedures. Our collection of lab chemicals includes water bath cleaners for chilled and heated water baths, as well as xylene-free Polyguard Paraffin Repellant to keep your microtome ready for clean slicing and dicing.

Sticky in a lab means keeping samples stable and fixed. From incredibly versatile Tackiwax Adhesive to Hartmann’s Fixative to good old fashioned paraffin wax, the Chemicals and Reagents Collection at Boekel Scientific sticks the landing on sample prep options.

To Dye For

Staining is one of the most common practices in most labs. Adding lab chemicals — also called lab reagents because they cause a reaction — to tissue samples helps highlight important tissue features and enhance contrast for visual identification. Our collection includes convenient kits like the Picrosirius Red Stain Kit for histology and the Fungi-Flour Staining Kit for rapid fungal identification in fresh and frozen clinical specimens including sputum and tissue biopsies. We’ve also included a rainbow of Tissue Marking Dyes that help orient excised surgical specimens. You’ll find the MSDS for Boekel Scientific reagents available for download on each product’s page.

Scientific Secret (Re)Agent

Secret agents stay in the background, keeping us safe without the spotlight on them. Boekel Scientific works in much the same way, working behind the scenes to help scientists and researchers bring their innovative ideas into reality. For over 150 years, we’ve manufactured high-quality laboratory equipment right here in the U.S. for the best and brightest in the fields of biotech, environmental science, food safety, academia and medicine. We listen to our customers because you are science. Our job is to keep up with you.

Contact us to collaborate on custom manufactured equipment or custom consumables, and our in-house design, engineering and quality teams can walk you through the process. In short, we’ll build the equipment; you save the world.