Metallic soaps (also known as YUKALIC® Driers) are a group of water-insoluble compounds, containing metals combined with carboxylic acids. Their solubility or solvation in various organic solvents accounts for their many uses, such as driers, catalysts, stabilizer for plastics, fungicides, and fuel additives.

Driers are the most common group of metallic soaps.

They promote or accelerate drying, curing or hardening of oxidizable coating vehicles,for example: unsaturated oil (such as linseed oil) or unsaturated synthetic resin (such as alkyd resin). They are used in coatings composition utilized in a wide variety of specific industrial uses like paint, varnish, ink, etc.