Toiletries, cyclodextrins

In polar solvents amphiphilic molecules, that is molecules with a polar head and hydrophobic tail , tend to form various aggregates. The structure of micelles is usually much more complicated than that schematically shown in Figure 1.4 (see the pertaining discussion in Section 2.3). Nevertheless, in water they can include nonpolar molecules into their voids acting like surfactants applied in toiletry [15]. Similarly to cyclodextrins such as 11 [6, 16] and liquid crystals [7] discussed in Section 2.6, surfactants are examples of few supramolecular systems which have found numerous practical applications. 

Szejdi, J. (1981). Cyclodextrins in foods, cosmetics and toiletries. In Cyclodextrins, Szejtli, J. (Ed.), pp. 469-480. Reidel, Boston. 

In the chemistry of inclusion compounds, there is no doubt that cyclodextrins (CDs) belong to the most important class of host molecules. The remarkable career of cyclodextrins in research and industrial applications is due to their ability to incorporate selectively many organic/inorganic molecules, ions and even radicals. CDs have found numerous applications in many areas, especially in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, food and tobacco industries, as well as in cosmetics and toiletry [8]. 

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