A tool for personal care product formulators If you formulate with surfactants, this book is an invaluable aid. Adding new technologies, products and techniques introduced since the 1999 publication of the first edition and including, for the first time, Dr. Martin Rieger's classic review of surfactants for personal care products, this edition provides personal care formulators with a must-have tool:
Provides a basic understanding of the chemistry, structural attributes and functional properties of major types of surfactants. Helps formulators better understand the rules that govern applications of surfactants in different types of formulation and thereby optimize formulations. The surfactants that are reviewed represent those most currently encountered by formulators. Find all the information you need on surfactants in one comprehensive volume!