Alkyl polyglycosides ethylene oxide

Other classes of commonly used compounds are also under suspicion as hormone mimics. These include alkylphenols and their reaction products with ethylene oxide, which are used as detergents, as well as phthalates, which are used as plasticizers.59 These detergents might be replaced with alkyl polyglycosides that can be made from renewable sugars and fats (see Chap. 12). Di-/ -butyl... 

The most extensive group of ether surfactants is that of polyethoxylated long-chain alcohols and related ethoxylated products considered, in view of their practical importance, in a separate section. Other ether nonionics of importance are polypropylene glycols, propoxylated alcohols, block-copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, block-copolymers of ethylene oxide and butylene oxide [8, 16-20], block-copolymers having a hydrophobic polydimethylsiloxane moiety [19, 21], as well as alkyl polyglycerides, alkyl polyglycosides, derivatives of maltose and other saccarides. 

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