The corrosion inhibition of C-steel in 1 M HCl was assessed using three newly synthesized hydrazide derivatives (H1, H2 and H3) using weight loss (WL), potentiodynamic polarization (PDP) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) techniques. Also, the adsorption of these compounds was confirmed using several techniques such as atomic force microscopy (AFM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). High inhibition efficiencies were obtained resulting from the constitution of the protective layer on the C-steel surface, which increased with increasing concentration and temperature and reached 91.7 to 96.5% as obtained from the chemical method at 20 × 10