Surfactants categories

In recent years, protein-based surfactants are finding some applications in personal care products due to their abilities to interact with skin and hair." A-acyl polypeptide condensates (protein derivatives) belong to the mild surfactant category with foaming performance inferior to alkyl sulfates, but they produce creamy lather and leave hair feeling soft and manageable. However, it appears that extra attention and care should be taken to ensure preservation of these protein derivatives due to compatibility with other anionic surfactants when present in shampoo formulations. 

This surfactant category represents the quaternized acyl protein hydrolysates, combining the care effects of the cationic substances with the positive dermatological effects of the protein derivatives and making them valuable for personal care products. 

This inequality indicates the amphiphile adopts a shape essentially equivalent to that of a cone with basal area <3. Such cones self-assemble to fonn spheroidal micelles in solution or spheroidal hemimicelles on surfaces (see section C2.3.15). Single-chain surfactants with bulky headgroups, such as SDS, typify surfactants in this category. 

The surfactant is initially distributed through three different locations dissolved as individual molecules or ions in the aqueous phase, at the surface of the monomer drops, and as micelles. The latter category holds most of the surfactant. Likewise, the monomer is located in three places. Some monomer is present as individual molecules dissolved in the water. Some monomer diffuses into the oily interior of the micelle, where its concentration is much greater than in the aqueous phase. This process is called solubilization. The third site of monomer is in the dispersed droplets themselves. Most of the monomer is located in the latter, since these drops are much larger, although far less abundant, than the micelles. Figure 6.10 is a schematic illustration of this state of affairs during emulsion polymerization. 

Baby Shampoos. These shampoos, specifically marketed for small children, feature a non-eye stinging quaHty. The majority of the products in this category are based on an amphoteric detergent system a system combining the use of an imidazoline amphoteric with an ethoxylated nonionic surfactant has been successfiiUy marketed (15,16). The sulfosuccinates also have been suggested for baby shampoo preparation because of thek mildness... 

Household and personal products dominate surfactant technology Hterature. Sales volume per product ia these categories is large enough to justify research and investment ia large manufactuting facilities. Industrial appHcations represent smaller sales volumes per product. Research and especially technical service is often conducted by the user or by a service company that suppHes a variety of items to the consuming iadustry. 

There are many laboratory methods for testing the relative merits of one defoamer against another. It is a simple matter to measure foam height as a function of time to compare the performance of various foam surfactants and defoamers. Unfortunately, this simplicity has led to a wide variety of methods and conditions used with no standard procedure that would make the measurement of foaminess as characteristic of a solution as its surface tension or viscosity. It has been suggested that the time an average bubble remains entrapped ia the foam is such a quantity (49), but very few workers ia the defoamer iadustry have adopted this proposal. Ia practice, a wide variety of methods are used that geaerally fall iato oae of five maia categories ... 

There are four broad categories of surfactant, dependent on the charge associated with the active part of the molecule ... 

Known emissions from the production stage, which are not covered by characterisation factors and which may contribute significantly to the toxicity impact categories, include emissions of components occurring in small quantities in the raw materials (typically well below 5%) like siccatives (organic metal compounds), softeners (phthalates), antioxidants (aromatics) and wetteners (surfactants). Due to lack of readily available knowledge of their exact identity and/or lack of readily available data on their inherent environmental properties, it has not been possible to include them in the case study. 

The chemistry of surfactants has been described already. They usually play a subsidiary role in dispersions involved in textile coloration. The polyelectrolytes may be conveniently divided into two categories ... 

The two distinctive affinities in the surfactant molecule mentioned above serve as the basis for the commonly accepted definition of surfactant groups. According to the charge of their hydrophilic moiety, surfactants can be classified into four categories anionic, non-ionic, cationic and amphoteric. 

The most representative non-ionic surfactants are the alkyl (alcohol) ethoxylates. These are adducts of a long-chain alcohol (12—18) with a variable number of EO units (3-11). Other non-ionic surfactants are derived from carbohydrates (glucoside and glucamide derivatives), organosilicones, fatty alcohols, and amides. Products in this category are as follows (compare also Table 1.2) ... 

Council of European Surfactant Producers (CESIO) statistics [10] indicate a total surfactant production of 2.4 million tons in Europe for 1999, which were distributed in the categories shown in Table 1.5. Other information sources [11] indicate a surfactant consumption of 2.1 million tons in Europe for 1998, which compares very well with the CESIO figure. Europe is a net exporter of surfactants and a precise figure of actual European consumption is thus difficult to estimate, although information from CESIO provides data on total sales and captive use. 

It is possible to divide the noncovalent functionalization according to the type of molecules used, thus four categories are found (1) surfactants, (2) polymers, (3) bio-... 

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